Therapsids Originated in Tropical Rather than Temperate Regions, New Fossil Find Suggests
Paleontologists have discovered a new species of early gorgonopsian therapsid that was part of an ancient summer wet biome of equatorial Pangea. Life reconstruction of the gorgonopsian from Mallorca in a floodplain setting. Image credit: Henry Sutherland Sharpe. Therapsids were a dominant component of Permian terrestrial ecosystems worldwide, eventually giving rise to mammals during the
Saturn’s Rings May Be as Old as the Gas Giant Itself: Study
Saturn’s icy rings could be much older than they appear due to their resistance to pollution from impacts with rocky debris. Hyodo et al. suggest that the apparent youth of Saturn’s rings could be due to pollution resistance, rather than indicative of young formation age. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / A. Simon
Poem: ‘Cardiac Knotting’
December 16, 2024 1 min read Science in meter and verse By John Liles edited by Clara Moskowitz Masha Foya Edited by Dava Sobel The heart will have no interruption,begins as a simple tube  (blood flow undivided)at the middle of embryohurried—task of branching sufficient bloodlevels into all upcoming situations.  (in-roads throughout the growing body) The
No, It’s Not a Good Idea to Shoot at New Jersey ‘Mystery Drones’
December 16, 2024 4 min read Surging reports of strange drones in the skies over New Jersey and other parts of the northeastern U.S. have spurred calls to shoot down the unidentified objects. But that’s a very bad idea By Lee Billings edited by Dean Visser A small drone silhouetted against a full moon. Flyby
CERN Physicists Find First Ever Evidence of Antihyperhelium-4
Physicists with the ALICE Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have seen the first ever evidence of antihyperhelium-4, which is composed of two antiprotons, an antineutron and an antilambda. The new result also represents the first evidence of the heaviest antimatter hypernucleus yet at the LHC. Illustration of the production of antihyperhelium-4 in lead-lead
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