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When it comes to teeth, most vertebrates share the same basic blueprint. Regardless of their size, shape, or sharpness, teeth typically have the same genetic roots, similar physical makeup, and, almost always, a place in the jaw. That assumption, however, may no longer hold true. Scientists studying the spotted ratfish, a shark-like species found in…

“These glasses are unique to Australia and have recorded an ancient impact event we did not even know about,” Professor Jourdan said. in a crater but in tiny glass fragments found only in Australia. The discovery focuses on rare natural glass called tektites, which form when a meteorite hits Earth with enough force to melt…

Australia’s tropical rainforests have become the first in the world to release more carbon than they absorb, in a trend linked to climate change, a study has found. Rainforests are usually regarded as so-called “carbon sinks” as they absorb more emissions than they emit with new trees offsetting the carbon released by dead ones. But…

Fiona IrvingSouth East environment correspondent BBC The artificial reef covers 820 sq m around the base of a Rampion wind turbine One of the largest artificial reefs in the world has been installed at a wind farm off the Sussex coast. The project at the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm is the first of its kind,…

Picture a future where factories can create materials and chemical compounds more quickly, at lower cost, and with fewer production steps. Imagine your laptop processing complex data in seconds or a supercomputer learning and adapting as efficiently as the human brain. These possibilities depend on one fundamental factor: how electrons behave inside materials. Researchers at…

For billions of years, Earth’s continents have remained remarkably steady, providing the groundwork for mountains, ecosystems, and human civilization. Yet the reason behind their long-term stability has puzzled scientists for more than a century. Now, researchers from Penn State and Columbia University have uncovered strong evidence explaining how the continents formed and maintained their endurance,…

Could Mars have once supported life? Scientists still don’t have proof. Yet some of the planet’s strange surface features might seem to hint at it. Earth scientist Dr. Lonneke Roelofs of Utrecht University set out to study the origin of mysterious gullies carved into Martian dunes. In her laboratory experiments, she discovered that blocks of…