A new genus and species of early-diverging oviraptorosaurian dinosaur has been identified from two specimens found in Inner Mongolia, China. Life reconstruction of Yuanyanglong bainian. Image credit: Sci.News / Ddinodan. “Oviraptorosauria is a group of specialized pennaraptoran theropods known primarily from an abundant Asian and North American Cretaceous fossil record,” said Dr. Xing Xu, a
Administrative innovations in south-west Asia during the 4th millennium BCE, including the cylinder seals that were rolled on the earliest clay tablets, laid the foundations for proto-cuneiform script, one of the first writing systems. Seals were rich in iconography, but little research had focused on the potential influence of specific motifs on the development of
Using genome, transcriptome, and proteome analysis of the newly-discovered species of tardigrade, named Hypsibius henanensis, scientists explored the molecular basis contributing to radiotolerance in these tiny invertebrates. Schematic of mechanisms that confer radiotolerance to Hypsibius henanensis. Image credit: Li et al., doi: 10.1126/science.adl0799. Tardigrades, also known as water bears or moss piglets, are a diverse
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, which is visible from the southern hemisphere. This Hubble image shows NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy some 49 million light-years away in the constellation of Dorado. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the ultraviolet
Named LID-568, this 7.2-million-solar-mass black hole appears to be feeding on matter at a rate 40 times its Eddington limit and is seen as it existed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. An artist’s impression of the accreting black hole LID-568 in the early Universe. Image credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA /
Paleontologists have unearthed and examined a fossilized leg bone of a phorusrhacid bird that lived 12 million years ago in South America. A model of Paraphysornis at the Natural History Museum Vienna. Image credit: Armin Reindl / CC BY-SA 4.0. Terror birds are members of Phorusrhacidae, a family of large, carnivorous, flightless birds within the
Updated 2 months ago · Published on 11 Sep 2024 4:00PM · The Sarawak DAP assemblyman for Pending, Violet Yong, has claimed that the Autonomous Rapid Transit hydrogen tram project in Kuching will cost up to a shocking RM6 billion. – Facebook pic, September 11, 2024. THE SARAWAK DAP assemblyman for Pending, Violet Yong, has claimed
Home Hydrogen Second European Hydrogen Bank auction with €1.2 billion budget is officially open December 3, 2024, by Ajsa Habibic The European Commission (EC) has officially opened the second auction under the European Hydrogen Bank, via the Innovation Fund (IF24), to allocate €1.2 billion from EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) revenues to support producers of hydrogen categorized as
Paleontologists have identified a new species of the extinct armadillo genus Parutaetus from fossilized osteoderms collected in the state of Paraná in southern Brazil. Hypothetical artistic reconstruction of Parutaetus oliveirai in the Middle-Late Eocene of Brazil. Image credit: Márcio L. Castro. Parutaetus oliveirai inhabited South America between 42 and 39 million years ago (Middle-Late Eocene
The Neanderthal groups that inhabited a cave in what is now Spain approximately 46,000 years ago gathered and collected fossils, according to a paper published in the journal Quaternary. Marine fossils from Prado Vargas Cave, Spain. Image credit: Ruiz et al., doi: 10.3390/quat7040049. Collecting is a form of leisure, and even a passion, consisting of
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ , a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. The U.S. Department of Energy is rolling out the first installment of its $1 billion commitment to ramp up clean hydrogen production in the Midwest, part of a bid by the Biden administration
