A study in Science reports that tiny 300-million-year-old hatchlings from Mazon Creek preserve a rare glimpse of how some early relatives of land animals began life. The fossils point to direct development, a life cycle in which young animals grow as small versions of their adult form, giving paleontologists a new window into the deep…
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A study in Science found that wild mammals inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone changed their daily routines during Russia’s 2022 occupation of the area, giving scientists a rare record of how animals react when warfare suddenly enters a protected landscape. The research focused on camera-trap footage collected before, during and after Russian forces moved through…
A study in Nature recorded activity from hundreds of individual neurons in eight people as they took part in natural English conversations. The work, led by researchers associated with Massachusetts General Hospital, shows that single brain cells carry information about upcoming speech before a person says a word. The findings give scientists an unusually close…
NASA has selected the DAPHNE mission concept to enter Phase B, moving a twin-satellite investigation closer to flight as scientists work to solve a difficult space weather puzzle. The mission will study how activity in Earth’s lower atmosphere can shape the upper atmosphere, where disturbances can affect GPS, satellites in low Earth orbit and astronauts…
