Researchers from Tel Aviv University predict lightning sprites in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn and Venus.
Only a few decades ago, scientists discovered...
Researchers used Alaskan huskies to demonstrate the serious health risks posed by contaminants, such as mercury, in the subsistence diets that both indigenous...
Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in creating light from vacuum – observing an effect first predicted over 40 years...
A team of researchers led by University of Colorado has discovered the first prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast ever found in Alaska, a small,...
Researchers from University of California Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology have developed the world’s lightest material...
Researchers from North America and China determined the date and rate of Earth’s most severe mass extinction. A paper in this week’s journal Science...
The birth of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains buried beneath the vast East Antarctic Ice Sheet — a puzzle mystifying scientists since their discovery...
Using the LABOCA camera on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope on the plateau of Chajnantor in the Chilean Andes, a team of astronomers...
Geologists at MIT and Harvard University have unearthed rare, flask-shaped microfossils dating back 635 to 715 million years, representing the oldest known...
Voyager 2 has successfully switched to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft, according to a press release from NASA’s...
The extinct giant ape, Gigantopithecus blacki, is a species of large hominoids that dominated the Pleistocene of South China. Its massive mandible, large...
Japanese researchers have discovered a hitherto unknown population of coelacanths, a fish species known as a living fossil, off southeast Africa, according...
An international team of scientists has unlocked the mystery of how horses depicted in prehistoric cave paintings are lifelike in nature, using ancient...
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a lost civilisation of the Sahara, in one of the harshest parts of the African desert.
Researchers from the...
Space scientists investigating the composition of very distant galaxies have discovered two galaxies in the young Universe that have more heavy chemical...
