Astronomers have tracked down a gigantic, previously unknown assembly of galaxies located almost seven billion light-years away from us.
Pieces of amber containing parts of a spider's web have been found in East Sussex and dated back to the Cretaceous period 140 million years ago, which makes it the oldest spider's web known.
Bacteria that cause chronic lung infections can communicate with each other to form a deadly shield against the body's natural defenses.
Biologists for the first time have documented a second breeding season during the annual cycle of five songbird species that spend summers in temperate North America and winters in tropical Central and South America.
A single, incredibly well-preserved specimen of the tiny but scary-looking fly was preserved for eternity in Burmese amber, and it had a small horn emerging from the top of its head, topped by three eyes that would have given it the ability to see predators coming.
Supervolcanoes and cosmic impacts get all the terrible glory for causing mass extinctions, but a new theory suggests lowly algae may be the killer behind the world's great species annihilations.
A new dinosaur species, Fruitadens haagarorum, is the smallest dinosaur ever discovered from North America. The tiny Fruitadens weighed less than a kilogram (two pounds) and was just 70 cm (28 inches) in length.
During the past 30 years the evolution of fully aquatic whales from terrestrial ancestors has gone from one of the most enigmatic evolutionary transitions to one of the best documented.
Researchers digging in north eastern China say they have discovered the fossil of a previously unknown chipmunk-sized mammal that could help explain how human hearing evolved.
An isolated anterior caudal vertebra from the Qingshan (= Ch'ing shan) Formation (Early Cretaceous) of Shandong Province, China, is redescribed and shown to be an advanced diplodocid sauropod.
Conodonts, a large group of tiny extinct marine animals ranging in age from the Late Cambrian to Late Triassic (c. 500 to 200 MYA), are usually considered as jawless vertebrates.
An international group of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) have identified a new type of flying reptile – providing the first clear evidence of an unusual and controversial type of evolution.
Israel M. Gelfand, one of the giants of 20th-century mathematics, whose work cleared paths for other thinkers in fields as diverse as physics and medical imaging, died on Monday in New Brunswick, N.J. He was 96.
The 40,000 or so spiders that have been described are generally known as strict predators, trapping their prey in elaborate webs or hunting them down directly.
ScienceDaily (Oct. 13, 2009) — Smithsonian researchers working in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest.
An unexpected discovery made by Macquarie University PhD student Sargent Bray about the origin and nature of chemical compounds contained in ancient amber has changed our understanding of when modern flowering plants first began to evolve.
Children who eat sweets and chocolate every day are more likely to be violent as adults, according to new research.
A soggy wooden board carpeted in soft white fungi doesn't look like much, but in the right hands it can become a world class violin. According to a recent sound test before about 180 people, two fungi infested violins bested a multi-million dollar Stradivarius.
Remains of a shark-bitten, 85-million-year-old plesiosaur reveal that around seven sharks likely consumed the enormous dinosaur-era marine reptile in a feeding frenzy, leaving some of their shark teeth stuck in the plesiosaur's bones, according to a new study.
When you think of Tyrannosaurus rex, a small set of striking physical traits comes to mind: an oversized skull with powerful jaws, tiny forearms, and the muscular hind legs of a runner.
The longest set of HARPS measurements ever made has firmly established the nature of the smallest and fastest-orbiting exoplanet known, CoRoT-7b, revealing its mass as five times that of Earth's.
There are some things it is better just not to think about. Like the 10,000 bacteria you inhale with each breath in the average office building. Or the 10 million bacteria in each glass of tap water.
A powerful lightning storm brewing in Saturn's atmosphere since January has become the solar system's longest continuously observed thunderstorm, astronomers have announced.
In some ways, stingrays are the Cinderellas of the elasmobranch world. Compared with their better-studied cousins, the sharks, little is known about the ways that stingrays sense their environment.
An inquest in Bristol has ruled that a 500 year old silver ring, found on a medieval settlement site, must to be sold to a local museum. The ring is thought to have once belonged to a 15th century mayor of Bristol.
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Ivan replaced my "Science" category in Google News.
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'Where does he get all those wonderful toys?' (A quote from 'Batman Returns')
In Ivan's case, just substitute the words ' science articles' for 'toys'.
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Put simply: Ivan Pavlov rules.
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Ivan is one of my favorite seeders and writers here on the vine. His weekly science reviews are a must read for all members and he seeds so many excellent stories that everyone should have him on their watchlists.
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By "watching" you I often find links to interesting articles, that I use elsewhere. Articles I might not have found, using the ordinary search tools. This is something which is special about Newsvine, I think.
— mogmich
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I don't know how you snuck under my radar for so long, but you're on my watchlist now ;)
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Reading your first article made my brain hurt in wonderful ways, and I expect it won't be the last time your writing has that effect on me. :D
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