Archaeology
Aug 30, 2021
Researchers identify record number of ancient elephant bone tools
Ancient humans could do some impressive things with elephant bones.
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Cell & Microbiology
Aug 11, 2021
Skull birth defect detailed in cell-by-cell description
Contrary to the popular song, the neck bone is actually connected to one of 22 separate head bones that make up the human skull. These plate-like bones intersect at specialized joints called sutures, which normally allow ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Aug 3, 2021
Skull of 340 million year old animal digitally recreated, revealing secrets of ancient amphibian
Researchers from the University of Bristol and University College London have used cutting-edge techniques to digitally reconstruct the skull of one of the earliest limbed animals.
Evolution
Jul 22, 2021
Newly-hatched pterosaurs may have been able to fly
Newly-hatched pterosaurs may have been able to fly but their flying abilities may have been different from adult pterosaurs, according to a new study.
Archaeology
Jul 5, 2021
Ancient bone carving could change the way we think about Neanderthals
The design may be simple, but a chevron pattern etched onto a deer bone more than 50,000 years ago suggests that Neanderthals had their own artistic tradition before modern humans arrived on the scene, researchers said Monday.
Bio & Medicine
Jun 9, 2021
New adaptable nanoparticle platform enables enhanced delivery of gene therapies
Scientists have developed polypeptide-based materials that act as effective vectors for delivering gene therapies. The first-of-its-kind platform enables the vectors to be adapted to suit the specific gene therapy cargo.
Archaeology
Jun 7, 2021
Ancient chickens seen as sacred, not food, study shows
Ancient chickens lived significantly longer than their modern equivalents because they were seen as sacred—not food—archaeologists have found.
Archaeology
Jun 3, 2021
White Monument in Syria could be oldest known war memorial
A team of researchers from the University of Toronto, the Euphrates Salvage Project and the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has found evidence that suggests the White Monument in Syria could be the oldest ...
Evolution
Jun 2, 2021
Young T. rexes had a powerful bite, capable of exerting one-sixth the force of an adult
Jack Tseng loves bone-crunching animals—hyenas are his favorite—so when paleontologist Joseph Peterson discovered fossilized dinosaur bones that had teeth marks from a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex, Tseng decided to try ...
Materials Science
May 27, 2021
Scientists turn aquaculture waste into new biomaterial for tissue repair
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a new biomaterial made entirely from discarded bullfrog skin and fish scales that could help in bone repair.
