Geologists from Virginia Commonwealth University and elsewhere have found new evidence of bolide impact signatures within specimens from the Massive Australian Precambrian-Cambrian Impact Structure in the Northern Territory, Australia. A surface geology map of the proposed MAPCIS crater. Image credit: Daniel Connelly. The Massive Australian Precambrian-Cambrian Impact Structure (MAPCIS) is a non-concentric complex crater about

Dubbed EndoMac progenitors, the newly-discovered type of cell has the potential to enhance the future of tissue repair and generation, according to a team of scientists headed by South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute researchers. Angiotensin II-induced vascular inflammation involves early expansion of EndoMac progenitors in vivo. Image credit: Williamson et al., doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-51637-7.

Around 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid impact triggered mass extinction, mega-tsunamis and a spell of global warming that lasted for around 100,000 years. Although NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission demonstrated that near-Earth objects can be successfully targeted, deflecting the most dangerous asteroids will require energy concentrations akin to nuclear explosions. However, targets

This ancient Byzantine church was dedicated to the Christian martyr Bacchus the Holy, according to archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). The remains of the 1,400-year-old Byzantine church at Khirbet Tinshemet, Israel. Image credit: Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority. The remains of the ancient Byzantine church were discovered at the archaeological site of Khirbet

The dingo is a wild dog endemic to Australia with enigmatic origins. Dingoes are one of two remaining unadmixed populations of an early East Asian dog lineage, the other being wild dogs from the New Guinea highlands, but connections between these groups have long proved elusive. To investigate this issue, scientists from the University of

The Hubble team has released a stunning new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the barred spiral galaxy IC 1954. This Hubble image shows IC 1954, a small barred spiral galaxy located 45 million light-years away in the constellation of Horologium. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker /

Unlike other data storage formats that degrade over time, 5D memory crystals can store up to 360 terabytes of information without loss for billions of years, even at high temperatures, according to a team of scientists at the University of Southampton. The 5D crystal is equivalent to fused quartz, one of the most chemically and

Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System. Io’s volcanoes are powered by both the extreme tides from Jupiter and the gravitational interactions between it and Jupiter’s other moons. These tides generate friction inside Io. Using data from an infrared camera on NASA’s Juno orbiter called the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM)