Oct 4, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

During excavations of the royal Maya city of El Perú-Waka’ in northwestern Petén, Guatemala, an international team of archaeologists has discovered...

Oct 4, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a multinational team of scientists led by Dr Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo of Complutense University, Madrid, a fragment of a child’s skull...

Oct 4, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using the newly upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico, USA, have discovered two black holes inside an ancient...

Oct 3, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Scientists, using data from a high-resolution spectrometer aboard ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft, have discovered a surprisingly cold layer high in Venusian...

Oct 3, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

For the first time ever, an international team of physicists has directly imaged Landau levels – the quantum levels that determine electron behavior...

Oct 2, 2012 by Natali Anderson

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4183. NGC 4183 is a spiral galaxy little smaller than the Milky...

Oct 2, 2012 by News Staff

NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured images of bedrock that suggest a fast-moving stream once flowed on the Martian surface. “From the size of...

Oct 2, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of entomologists has discovered a potentially dangerous new malaria-transmitting mosquito. A study, published in the journal Emerging...

Oct 2, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Archaeologists excavating the mammoth hunting site of Breitenbach in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, have discovered what they say is the oldest ivory workshop...

Oct 1, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to marine biologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), a ‘vampire squid’ called Vampyroteuthis infernalis uses two...

Oct 1, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Physicists at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-based Science, Japan, have obtained the most unambiguous data to date on the elusive 113th atomic...