The unusual radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, a range of instruments flown on NASA balloons high above Antarctica that are designed to detect ...

Pre-contact Central and South American dogs (Canis familiaris) — all dogs preceding contact with European settlers — descended from a single maternal lineage that diverged after dogs entered North ...

Genetic and archaeological evidence imply a second major movement of Neanderthals from Western to Central and Eastern Eurasia sometime in the Late Pleistocene. The genetic data suggest a date between ...

“Believe it or not, no one has really addressed whether it’s feasible to terraform Mars since 1991,” Dr. Lanza said. “Yet since then, we’ve made great strides in Mars science, geoengineering, launch ...

Astronomers have discovered the largest known cloud of energetic particles surrounding a galaxy cluster — the 20-million-light-year-wide cloud around the galaxy cluster PLCK G287.0+32.9. PLCK ...

“Proton emission is a rare form of radioactive decay, in which the nucleus emits a proton to take a step towards stability,” said Henna Kokkonen, a doctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä. ...