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A recently re-examined fossil from Brazil has revealed one of the rarest phenomena ever recorded in prehistoric life: a two-headed reptile dating back to the Early Cretaceous period, roughly 120 million years ago. The discovery, detailed in a peer-reviewed study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The fossil preserves an incredibly rare case of bicephaly, a condition …

In November 2024, officers from the Environmental Military Police of Mato Grosso do Sul witnessed an extraordinary event on the Aquidauana River, where thousands of bumblebee catfish attempted to scale waterfalls as high as four meters.  The unusual sight came at the very start of the rainy season and was quickly recognized as a rare natural phenomenon. Within a week, …

Scientists Create New Magnetic State: The Magneto-Ionic Vortex (“Vortion”)  SciTechDaily Source link

Researchers at Tampere University and their collaborators from Germany and India have experimentally confirmed that angular momentum is conserved when a single photon is converted into a pair – validating a key principle of physics at the quantum level for the first time. This breakthrough opens new possibilities for creating complex quantum states useful in computing, communication, and sensing. Conservation …

Nuclear fusion has seen some exciting advances, and the promise of clean, efficient energy does seem to be creeping closer to reality. But skeptics point to practical issues we may not be trying hard enough to solve—issues that will inevitably weigh down our reactors when they finally arrive. A new study led by Terence Tarnowsky, a nuclear physicist at Los …

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists were taken aback by a peculiar event that unfolded on Greenland’s ice sheet in 2014, now revealed by recent research. A study, published by Nature Geoscience, documents the unexpected eruption of meltwater from a subglacial lake, which pierced through the ice sheet in an extraordinary manner. The findings have left researchers perplexed, as this development …

The Axial Seamount, the most active volcano in the Northeast Pacific, is showing strong signs of preparing for another eruption. Recent seismic and geophysical studies, reported in Nature Communications, reveal accelerating activity beneath its oceanic floor. Located about 480 kilometers west of Oregon’s coast and submerged under 1,400 meters of water, Axial is a hotspot of volcanism that has already …

400 Years After Their Discovery, Red Blood Cells Continue To Astonish Scientists  SciTechDaily Source link

Looking for an effective, sustainable toothpaste? It might be on top of your head. Scientists have discovered that keratin, a protein found in hair, skin, and wool, can repair tooth enamel and stop tooth decay. It might also protect teeth even better than conventional fluoride-based toothpastes, stopping tooth decay in its tracks, according to a new study. When keratin comes …

Research from scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have shed new light on an age-old question: what makes the human brain unique? The team’s discovery comes from their investigation of human-accelerated regions (HARs) — sections of the human genome that have accumulated an unusually high level of mutations as humans have evolved. There is a lot …