A 500-million-year-old clawed beast rewrites the origins of spiders and crabs.

The Cambrian chelicerate Megachelicerax cousteaui

image: Holotype specimen (part and companion) showing Megachelicerax cousteaui’s remarkable pincer-like chelicerae. vision Again Credit: Credit: Rudy Lerosey-Aubril It had been a long day teaching Rudy Lerosey-Aubril. As a reward, he returned to clean the Cambrian arthropod fossils he had just discovered for analysis. At first, the model showed all the expected characteristics of its … Read more

The sermons of Pete Hegseth and Pope Leo share a common tradition

The sermons of Pete Hegseth and Pope Leo share a common tradition

This past week, when many Christians around the world began to celebrate the beginning of Easter week, related sermons offered different interpretations of the US-Israeli war against Iran. On Wednesday, at his monthly service at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth read a prayer from a pastor and offered his bloodthirsty views on the ongoing … Read more

Meet the 8-year-old from California whose plushie is on the way to Artemis II

Meet the 8-year-old from California whose plushie is on the way to Artemis II

The California native is heading to Artemis II – and she’s not human. RISE, a beautiful model created by 8-year-old Lucas Ye, joins four astronauts aboard Artemis II, which will launch Wednesday at 6:24 pm ET, marking the first human mission to return to the moon in more than half a century. “I was so … Read more

Angle evolution of the superconducting phase diagram in twisted bilayer WSe2 – Nature

Angle evolution of the superconducting phase diagram in twisted bilayer WSe2 - Nature

Xia, Y. et al. Superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe2. Nature 6372025–838 (2025). Article Google Scholar Guo, Y. et al. Superconductivity in 5.0° twisted bilayer WSe2. Nature 637839–845 (2025). Article ADS CAS PubMed Google Scholar Cao, Y. et al. Correlative behavior of half-filling magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 55680–84 (2018). Article ADS CAS PubMed Google Scholar Yankowitz, … Read more

Scientists Simulated What Will Happen If The Sun Disappears, And The Effect Is Greater Than Expected.

Scientists Simulated What Would Happen If The Sun Disappeared, And The Outcome Is Far More Extreme Than Expected

The sudden loss of the Sun would not be immediately felt on Earth, but within minutes the planet would undergo a rapid and irreversible transformation. Darkness would set in, temperatures would drop dramatically, and basic life support systems would slowly shut down. For approx 4.6 billion yearsThe sun has been the central force in the … Read more

King penguins thrive in the warm Antarctic climate, which offers hope

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A new study has found that king penguins on a sub-Antarctic island are now giving birth 19 days earlier than they did in 2000, and more chicks are surviving the winter. That change has turned a warming ocean into a temporary boon for species that may still be losing it. King penguin on the island … Read more

Scientists Have Found a Flaw in a 300-Year-Old Law of Physics, and It’s Changing How Friction Works.

Setting Up the Test, Total Conflict and Order Parameters

For more than three hundred years, Amonons first law has been one of the most reliable principles of physics. Written by the French physicist Guillaume Amontons in his 1699 book De la résistance causée dans les machines, the law states that the force of friction is directly proportional to the applied load, which means that … Read more

Cosmic ‘Dead Zone’ for Black Holes Is Real, New Evidence Suggests

Cosmic 'Dead Zone' for Black Holes Is Real, New Evidence Suggests

The latest update to LIGO’s catalog has doubled the number of confirmed gravitational waves – waves in spacetime caused by catastrophic events. And now, astronomers come to the dire decision of selecting an updated dataset. In a Nature paper published today, researchers have confirmed the first evidence of two unstable supernovae, doing so with gravitational … Read more

A 500-million-year-old spider has claws where they shouldn’t

prehistoric spider genealogy illustration. it is under the sea and hunts with two front claws

The fossils were completely unremarkable. That’s what Harvard University paleontologist Rudy Lerosey-Aubril thought at first when he was examining arthropod fossils from the Cambrian period (538.8 to 485.4 million years ago). Lerosey-Aubril says: Normal Science. Early arthropod specimens do not have claws like this. Instead, Cambrian arthropods often have antennae in that region. In other … Read more

Scientists were doing experiments in the laboratory until a strange situation appeared that was considered impossible for more than 50 years.

Strange state of matter revealed

Science and energy production are closely linked. In recent years, we have made several amazing scientific discoveries that may hold the future of energy production in their hands. But to realize the strange condition of the matter that existed considered impossible for more than 50 years it may hold the answers to powering our future … Read more