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An international team of paleontologists from China, Canada and the United Kingdom has discovered the tail of a non-avian theropod dinosaur (likely a coelurosaur) trapped in a piece of 99-million-year-old Burmese amber. The feathered tail of a coelurosaur preserved in mid-Cretaceous amber from Kachin State, Myanmar. Image credit: Lida Xing …

According to a team of researchers led by Gerald Wright, a professor of biochemistry and biomedical sciences at McMaster University, Lechuguilla Cave — an underground ecosystem that has been isolated from the surface for over 4 million years — is home to a remarkable prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Lechuguilla Cave, …

A new study published in the journal Molecular Cell reports that arecoline, an active compound found in areca nuts, has anti-cancer properties. A ripe areca nut. Image credit: Banni Pulikottil / CC BY 2.5. Areca nuts are seed of the areca palm (Areca catechu), which grows in Asia, parts of …

Those who have been using Android since the early days know how much the security situation has improved. But it’s still far from perfect. So many companies are making and selling phones, that staggering security mistakes continue to occur from time to time. The latest scare comes by way of …

  Image copyright Northern Territory Government  Image caption The piece depicts two ceremonial men singing a bush tucker song while two others listen. The radiating lines indicate a journey An Aboriginal painting that went missing in 1981 has been found by chance hanging in the office of a tourism official …

Image copyright Family handout Image caption Police had asked for help to find Jodi Denton A 12-year-old girl has been found “safe and well” after going missing from her Gateshead home, Northumbria Police has said. Jodi Denton was reported missing in Ryton on Monday morning, but at about 21:00 GMT …

Artist Graham Short, from Birmingham, has engraved 5mm portraits of Jane Austen on four £5 notes, which could make them worth £20,000. They have all been spent in the UK, so check your pockets.

Commercial firmware pre-installed on some Android smartphone models sold in the US has been found to be secretly sending highly sensitive data to a third party company based in China, according to analysis by security firm Kryptowire. Personal data being transmitted without users’ knowledge or consent included text messages, call logs, contacts, app usage data and …

It took years for paleontologists to come to terms with the fact that dinosaurs had feathers. We started with “dinosaurs were like big scaly lizards,” progressed to “dinosaurs probably had feathers,” and now we’re arrived at “here are some actual dinosaur feathers.” A piece of amber discovered at a market …