An international team of researchers has discovered that all songbirds have an additional chromosome in their germ cells — the ‘germline restricted chromosome’ (GRC). The western yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava), a small passerine bird in the family Motacillidae. Image credit: Sci-News.com. Somatic (normal) cells have two copies of each chromosome. …

A new species of predatory tyrannosauroid dinosaur that lived about 92 million years ago (Cretaceous period) has been identified from fossils found in New Mexico. An artist’s rendering of how Suskityrannus hazelae may have looked. Image credit: Andrey Atuchin. The new dinosaur, named Suskityrannus hazelae, was a tiny relative of …

An international team of anthropologists and bioarchaeologists has found the primary ingredients of ayahuasca — a plant-based drink that is reported to induce hallucinations and altered consciousness — in a 1,000-year-old leather bundle from a rock shelter in the Bolivian Andes. Two of the artifacts from the 1,000-year-old ritual bundle …

  There’s no fountain of youth to turn back time, but it might be possible to hold back the ravages of age just a little. An ESA experiment that just arrived on the International Space Station (ISS) will test nanoparticles as a way to clear the body of free radicals. …

  (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Google’s Pixel phones left behind the affordable price points of the Nexus era, but the Pixels are some of the best smartphones you can buy. The problem: they’re getting ever more expensive just like other flagship devices. Google’s solution is the much-leaked and now …

  Samsung still doesn’t have a confirmed ship date for its troubled folding phone, and there are new signs the wait may be lengthy indeed. An email sent to pre-order holders says that Samsung is still “enhancing” the Galaxy Fold after multiple review units failed in a matter of days. …

Message appearing in the Google Ads UI on May 6. Google has been working for days to correct data in Google Ads reporting caused by a bug. The bug affected reports for April 30, May 1 and the initial hours of May 2. Current status: Data through April 30 is …

The Panthers decision to draft Will Grier out of West Virginia marked the first time in eight years that Carolina selected a quarterback during any round of the draft. Before Grier, the last time the Panthers took a quarterback came back in 2011 when they selected Cam Newton with the …

In April 2019, NASA’s InSight lander used its Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) to capture a series of Martian sunrise and sunset images. NASA’s InSight lander used its IDC camera to record the Martian sunrise on April 24, 2019. This image was taken around 5:30 a.m. Mars local time. Image credit: …

A new study by researchers from the Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Korea, showed that secondhand smoke exposure was significantly associated with hypertension (high blood pressure) in never-smokers, suggesting that necessity of health program and stricter smoking regulation to reduce the risk of hypertension. Avoid exposure to secondhand smoke regardless …