An amateur paleontologist has discovered the world’s smallest known fossil vertebrate footprints at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a 689 ha paleontological...
An international team of researchers has completed the first sequencing of the Denisovan genome, shedding light on the relationships between these archaic...
According to a team of scientists at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK, non-smokers who live with or spend time with smokers are damaging their everyday...
Experts from the IUCN Species Survival Commission have identified for the first time ever 100 of the most threatened animals, plants and fungi on the planet.
Eight...
Biologists have discovered that the Pollia condensata fruit does not get its blue color from pigment but instead uses structural color – a method of...
A research by a team of astronomers explores a discrepancy between the amount of lithium believed to be produced during the Big Bang and the amount of...
By using five years of observation on neighboring communities of chimpanzees at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia, an international team of scientists...
A new study by a team of European and Japanese scientists has revealed that stellar processes producing silver differ from those producing gold.
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European archaeologists using geophysical methods have mapped an ancient Roman town, which disappeared after its abandonment 1,500 years ago and now lies...
Israeli archaeologists have discovered a large rock-hewn water reservoir dating back to the First Temple period in the Jerusalem Archaeological Garden...
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a new image of a peculiar galaxy pair called Arp 116.
Hubble snapped this image of the...
A multinational team of astronomers led by University of Texas researchers has spotted the first visible-light evidence for gravitational waves in a binary...
The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, an international collaboration of more than 440 scientists in 32 labs in United States, the United Kingdom,...
An international team of astrophysicists and astronomers has developed a new method for detecting galaxies of stars that formed during the first 180 million...
Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile, have released a new image of the globular star cluster Messier 4.
This image shows the spectacular...
Astronomers at the Keio University, Japan, have discovered a helical molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy some 30,000 light-years away.
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European astronomers using ESO’s HARPS planet finder have discovered a new super-Earth in the habitable zone around the red dwarf star Gliese 163.
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Biologist Dr Robert Mesibov of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania, has discovered six new species of colorful, curiously...
The Hubble team has released a new image of NGC 5806, a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo.
The image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5806...
Archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority have unearthed 9,500-year-old figurines of a ram and a wild bovine at the Tel Moza archaeological site,...
