Discover science
Will humans be able to regrow limbs like the 'Tiger beetle'?
For the first time, scientists have deciphered the entire gene of axolotl, a salamander capable of regenerating many body parts after an injury.
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Constructing the electronic structure of benzene, a compound with electrons that exists in 126 different directions
The difficult problem that has puzzled science for years has been solved, creating a breakthrough in optoelectronics.
Discover science
Scary facts about the top 10 most brutal executioners in history
With cold and barbaric execution, these cruel executioners have terrified and righted many prisoners
Discover science
How does NASA telescope search for oxygen on exoplanets?
Researchers from the University of California, Riverside have developed a new technique that will use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scheduled to launch in 20…
Conquer Mars
Discovered Earth's 'living material' on another planet
Curiosity rover, NASA's self-propelled Mars exploration robot has discovered a form of organic matter similar to that found in fungi and ancient microorganisms on Earth.
Conquer Mars
The Martian magnetic field was detected 10 times stronger than expected
The Insight probe discovered that the Elysium Planitia plain north of the Martian equator has a magnetic field 10 times stronger than NASA's expected.
Archeology
Reveal shock from strange creatures 70 million years old: Earth rotates differently than the present
A specimen from the dinosaur era stunned scientists when it showed that one day at the end of the Cretaceous was only 23 and a half hours long, because the earth was spi…
Archeology
Discover the peculiar flying lizard hanging upside down on a tree like a bat in China
With its flat mouth, big eyes and hanging upside down in a tree, Vesperopterylus is indeed the strangest ancient flying pterosaur ever existed on Earth.
Archeology
Discovered a new super-small dinosaur, only 5cm long
The 99 million-year-old amber skull fossils revealed an unknown bird-like dinosaur, only 5 cm long.
Archeology
Mysterious 'spooky black carpet' is full of platinum and glass in the ice age
A mysterious black carpet, a sign of a large-scale fire disaster, found at an ice age site, Younger Dryas, has revealed a terrifying event from space.
Archeology
Leedsichthys: The 'vacuum cleaner' of the Jurassic Sea was once misunderstood as a dinosaur
Leedsichthys is a giant fish of the Pachycormidae family, a group of Mesozoic bony fish that lived in the mid-Jurassic oceans.
Archeology
Paleontologists discovered the fat on the body of the fish lizard 180 million years ago
Fat is something that always exists on an animal's body, but in fact they are very biodegradable and cannot exist in the form of fossils like bones.
Archeology
Found a small dinosaur by a hummingbird
This hummingbird-sized dinosaur was discovered in Myanmar. The scientists named the new dinosaur, Oculudentavis khaungraae.
Space science
NASA conducts a recruitment examination on the Moon, 1 against 1,300
For the first time in four years, NASA organized a new round of astronauts missions, aimed at bringing Americans back to the Moon by 2024.
Space science
This device can turn urine into usable water in space
In outer space, creating water is a huge technical challenge.