An international group of astronomers has discovered surprising gaseous spiral arms in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128, also known as Centaurus A.
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Researchers at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego have discovered that white whales can imitate the voices of humans.
The beluga or white...
Astronomers using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Fredrick C. Gillett Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai‘I, have photographed the...
A team of biologists has discovered a new species of bubble-nesting fighting fish in Samut Sakhon Province, Thailand.
Male B. mahachaiensis displaying...
An international team of astronomers using the CSIRO Australia Telescope Compact Array radio telescope in New South Wales has captured an image of a supersonic...
A team of astrophysicists using ESA’s International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) has reported the first direct detection of radioactive...
Australian researchers claim they have developed milk that protects human cells from the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
Dr Marit Kramski of the University...
Australian scientists have shown that an enzyme called tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA), which plays a vital role in the removal of blood clots,...
Astronomers have unveiled new high-resolution infrared images of Uranus, revealing in detail the bizarre weather of the seventh planet from the Sun.
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An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has studied a filament of dark matter in three dimensions for the first time.
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In a new genetic study led by Swedish scientists, the indigenous peoples of the Argentinean part of the Andes have been found to carry a gene that accelerates...
An arachnologist from Germany has discovered a harvestman with a leg span of more than 13 inches (33 cm) during a research trip to Laos.
This is a harvestman...
A team of citizen scientists and professional astronomers has discovered a circumbinary planet in a huge four-star system some 5,000 light years away.
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European astronomers using HARPS instrument on the 3.6-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile, have discovered an exoplanet with about the...
A coral specialist from the Netherlands has reported the discovery of a new coral species that lives on the ceilings of caves in Indo-Pacific coral reefs.
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A team of researchers from three U.S. universities has suggested that the most likely source of the water locked inside lunar soils is the constant stream...
New X-Ray observations made with ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Swift space telescopes have provided evidence for the interaction of fierce stellar winds...
According to an international team of paleontologists, a Cambrian fossil arthropod found in China is the earliest known fossil to show a brain.
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A multinational team of astronomers led by Dr Joel Kastner of Rochester Institute of Technology has captured stunning views of four planetary nebulae:...
