Giant ice avalanches discovered on Saturn’s moon Iapetus provide clue to extreme slippage elsewhere in the Solar System.
When the rimwall of Iapetus’s...
An international team of scientists has substantially increased the age at which we can trace the emergence of modern culture, all thanks to the San people...
An international team of archaeologists has unearthed a beautiful and colossal human sculpture at the Tayinat Archaeological Project excavation site in...
A team of archaeologists from the University of Bonn, Germany, has discovered a tomb of a young prince at the ancient Mayan city of Uxul.
A cup from the...
In a new study, geologists at the University of Texas at Austin have examined large-scale polygons on Mars and compared them to similar features on Earth’s...
A survey of the extensive fruit and seed collections from the Middle Eocene of the Messel fossil site in Germany has revealed 140 genera, representing...
A multinational team of researchers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope has discovered that almost three quarters of high-mass stars have close companions,...
Astronomers have detected the first exoplanetary system with regularly aligned orbits similar to those in our Solar System.
In this artist interpretation,...
Chinese biologists have published the first photo evidence that a population of the recently discovered snub-nosed monkey, Rhinopithecus strykeri, lives...
Biologists from the National University of Singapore have identified a new deep-water species of box crab.
Calappa karenae (Roy Kropp / Zootaxa / Magnolia...
A large international team of researchers led by University of Adelaide, Australia, has found that women who use marijuana can more than double the risk...
A new study led by Dr Susan Wolver, and Dr Diane Sun, from Virginia Commonwealth University, explains why if you have been bitten by a tick, you may develop...
An international team of astrophysicists has developed a new model that shows how an elusive type of black hole can be formed in the gas surrounding their...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered two ancient species of South American rodents, including the oldest chinchilla, a discovery that...
Israeli archaeologists have discovered what they believe is a 2,300-year-old harbor of the ancient city of Akko.
A member of the Israel Antiquities Authority...
Japanese astronomers using two radio telescopes have produced a map of carbon monoxide distribution in the central region of our Galaxy. While mapping...
A new study, which examines how dolphins might process their sonar signals, could provide a new system for man-made sonar to detect targets, such as sea...
After sequencing the complete genome of Leishmania donovani, a parasite causing one of the most important tropical diseases after malaria, a team of scientists...
