Study reveals how ancient elk rock art transformed from realistic to warped wolf-like beasts
Stylized elk. Credit: Gary Tepfer in Jacobson-Tepfer 2025 A recent study by Dr. Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, published in the…
New clues from two million-year-old tooth enamel tell us more about an ancient relative of humans
Proteins were taken from the enamel of this Paranthropus robustus’ tooth. Credit: Dr. Bernhard Zipfel, with permission from…
Dark matter could create dark dwarfs at the center of the Milky Way
An artist’s depiction of the relative sizes of the sun, a low mass star, a brown dwarf, Jupiter,…
Elephants gesture with an intention to communicate their desires, study finds
Elephants used distinct gesture types to communicate that they want apples. Credit: Royal Society Open Science (2025) .…
Individual defects in superconducting quantum circuits imaged for the first time
Experimental setup for imaging TLS defects. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adt8586 Individual defects in superconducting quantum circuits…
Radio observations hint at active galactic nucleus in nearby spiral galaxy NGC 4527
NGC 4527: color scale shows 700 MHz (Band-4) emission from the naturally weighted image. White contours represent the…
Real-time simulation makes understanding nonlinear quantum dynamics much easier
Schematic of linear and nonlinear responses. “x” is the input (force), and “y” is the output (response). Credit:…
Plastic-based spectrometers offer low-cost, compact solution for broadband spectral imaging
Birefringence of plastic products in the lab (scale bar: 1 cm). Credit: Science Advances A multinational research team,…
The KATRIN experiment sets new constraints on general neutrino interactions
General neutrino interactions in beta decay. Credit: Caroline Fengler Neutrinos are elementary particles that are predicted to be…
Higgs-boson properties clarified through decay pattern analysis
Event display of a candidate Higgs boson decaying to two muons (H→μμ), shown as red tracks in the…