A multinational team of researchers from the UK, Ethiopia, Pakistan and Italy has found that the genomes of some Ethiopian populations bear striking similarities...
A Norwegian-Syrian team of archaeologists has solved one of the great puzzles of the Roman Empire: why was the vibrant city of Palmyra located in the middle...
Three skull fossils of Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica, one of the two subspecies of the Iberian wild goat, from between 4,000 and 7,000 years ago have shed...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a bigger version of Earth locked in an orbital tug-of-war with a much larger, Neptune-sized planet...
The lyrebird is the reigning king of karaoke in the bird world, Australian researchers have discovered.
The Superb Lyrebird, Menura novaehollandiae, in...
An international team of researchers has discovered the first unequivocal evidence that humans in prehistoric Saharan Africa used cattle for their milk...
Wall-climbing robots, bioadhesives or other sticky substances can benefit greatly from a discovery about the self-cleaning and reuse abilities of a gecko’s...
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has taken the most detailed image so far of the stellar nursery called NGC 6357.
ESO's VLT has taken the most detailed...
Researchers from two institutions in Patna, India, have developed an environmentally friendly approach to making silver nanoparticles.
Pomegranates at...
BaBar experiment team has announced that their latest data suggest possible flaws in the Standard Model of particle physics, the reigning description of...
A linguistics researcher at the Macquarie University in Australia has discovered that the language, known as Burushaski, which is spoken by about 90,000...
A U.S. team of researchers has described a new single-dose vaccine that provides immunity against the effects of cocaine.
Coca leaf (Marcello Casal Jr....
Previously undiscovered particles could be detected as they accumulate around black holes, a team of researchers at the Vienna University of Technology...
An anomaly in the behavior of ordinary particles may point to the existence of mirror particles that could be candidates for dark matter responsible for...
New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have challenged prevailing ideas about how supermassive black holes grow in the centers of galaxies.
NGC...
Scientists have found that cougars, or American mountain lions, are re-emerging in areas of the United States, reversing 100 years of decline.
Cougar cubs...
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Yale University have discovered that grasshoppers stressed by spiders affect the productivity...
Re-analysis of the braincase of Acanthodes bronni has revealed that this 290-million-year-old fossil fish resembled a shark.
The fossilized braincase...
The practice of cave art in Europe began up to 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, a new uranium-series dating study has revealed. The study...
