According to physics students from the University of Leicester, the United Kingdom, space travelers would not see the light from stars stretching past...
An international team of zoologists has discovered a gorgeous new species of lizard in southern Vietnam.
Male Calotes bachae. Due to their shining blue...
A multinational team of astronomers led by the University of Central Lancashire has detected a large group of quasars that may be the largest known structure...
A team of researchers from Sweden, Scotland and Australia suggests that human genome may play a role in determining the makeup of the billions of microbes...
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered what may be the most distant Type Ia supernova ever found.
Supernova...
According to a new study led by the Warwick Medical School, people from low socio-economic positions in the United Kingdom eat more salt than the well...
New observations of the asteroid Apophis made with ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory as it approached our planet few days ago show the asteroid to be...
Astronomers from the University of California in Berkeley and the Clarion University in Pennsylvania using 2.1-m telescope of the McDonald Observatory...
Paleontologists have described a huge new species of ichthyosaur based on a 244-million-year-old fossil found in the Nevada desert in 2010.
Left: skull...
According to scientists at the University of California in Irvine, a variant of the dopamine-receptor gene may be associated with longevity.
Their findings,...
A team of British and Greek archaeologists has unearthed over 300 clay figurines at the Neolithic archaeological site of Koutroulou Magoula in Greece.
Clay...
A new species of Cretaceous bird, identified from a fossil found in Liaoning Province, China, suggests some early birds evolved teeth adapted for specialized...
Amateur astronomers from Planethunters.org have discovered a Jupiter-sized planet and 42 new planet candidates, including 14 objects in the habitable zones...
An analysis of fossilized dinosaur tail bones suggests some feathered dinosaurs used tail plumage to attract mates.
Artist’s impression of Similicaudipteryx...
Biologists have found evidence suggesting that the western long-beaked echidna, Zaglossus bruijnii, thought to have gone extinct in Australia thousands...
Scientists from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the Institute of Biology Leiden, the Netherlands, have found two new species of cichlid fish in Lake...
An agricultural suburb and other finds unearthed at Petra by archaeologists from the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project suggest that extensive...
U.S. scientists have identified a new class of meteorite that fell to Earth and likely originated from the crust of the Red Planet.
Fragments of the meteorite...
About one hundred of 2,200-year-old papyrus slave contracts have revealed that ancient Egyptians voluntarily entered into slave contracts with a local...
