Category Science

Just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, galaxies were expected to be small, chaotic, and still forming stars. Instead, astronomers have found enormous, mature-looking systems that appear to have…

In medieval Denmark, even death came with a price tag. The closer your grave lay to the church walls — or even inside them — the more it cost, signaling…

In this guest post, FigureTwo Founder and CEO Jeff Lang offers an important update since winning the Digital Science Catalyst Grant, and shares reimagined versions of key figures from the…

Being attacked by a bear often ends in tragedy, and this is certainly no exception for prehistoric victims. One person who lived in Paleolithic-era Italy — a teenager known by…

Don’t be fooled by this harmless, cute-looking jelly bobbing around the waters of Venice’s lagoon. Comb jellies present some odd behaviors and characteristics, such as performing cannibalism and lacking a…

Spiders have eight eyes, bees have five, and boxed jellyfish have 24 — but these are the exceptions. The vast majority of animals on this planet possess two peepers. Even…

Over the past decade, the research community has become increasingly comfortable using the language of openness. We talk about open science, open infrastructure, open metadata and open knowledge graphs. But…

Bison hunters had frequented the site of Bergstrom for hundreds of years. But around 1,100 years ago, they left the area, and all of its bison, behind. Now, a new…

A 307-million-year-old football-sized creature may be one of the earliest land vertebrates to have eaten plants. While plant-eating animals are overly abundant today, that wasn’t the case millions of years…

Indiana University (IU), a major multi-campus R1 public university serving nearly 8,000 faculty and more than 90,000 students, transformed how it manages faculty activity data by adopting Symplectic Elements. The platform…