A study of fire-damaged artifacts found at the Molí del Salt site in Spain has revealed that hunter-gatherer humans of the Upper Paleolithic Age recycled...
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has tried to answer the question: did a massive comet explode over Canada...
An international team of scientists has used a new empirical model to explore how gold atoms bond to other atoms.
Gold crystals (Alchemist-hp, www.pse-mendelejew.de...
A study led by Dr Christopher Karpowitz of Brigham Young University shows that having a seat at the table is very different than having a voice, for women.
Scientists...
New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory have revealed that prodigious star formation in galaxies of the early Universe were often accompanied...
Dutch nanotechnologists have developed a new material that is not only extremely water-repellent but also extremely oil-repellent.
The newly developed...
Astronomers have for the first time discovered planets orbiting Sun-like stars in a star cluster.
An artist’s impression of one of the two gas giant...
Archaeologists at the University of Tübingen suggest that eight extremely well-preserved wooden throwing spears found more than a decade ago in Germany...
Biologists from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, have discovered a new species of snail-eater in the highlands of western Panama.
Adult...
Archaeologists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have discovered what they believe is the largest Roman mosaic ever found in southern Turkey.
This...
An international team of biologists has discovered a new species of monkey in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Cercopithecus lomamiensis (Maurice Emetshu)
The...
A new study by a multinational team of scientists supports the idea that viruses are ancient living organisms and not inanimate molecular remnants run...
An archaeological team from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz has discovered the precise location of the oldest Roman military fortification known...
A nearly toothless shrew rat has been discovered on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia by an international group of biologists led by Dr Jacob Esselstyn...
Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have released a stunning new image of the Pencil Nebula, a small part of a supernova remnant in the...
A research led by Dr Ruth Murray-Clay of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that planets can form in the center of our galaxy.
Artist’s...
An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of the strongest magnetic field ever found around a massive star.
This image shows the...