Astronomers from Canada and France have announced the discovery of the first Trojan asteroid known to share its orbit with Uranus.
This image shows the...
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have identified the oldest solar twin known to date.
This image shows the Sun-like star HIP 102152. Credit:...
An international team of scientists from Switzerland, Australia, Germany and the United States has discovered remains of three hunter-gatherer settlements...
European hunter-gatherers began farming pigs around 4600 BC, according to an international team of researchers led by Dr Ben Krause-Kyora from the Christian-Albrechts...
An international team of physicists led by Lund University scientists has found new evidence for the existence of a synthetic super-heavy element with...
Language can play a powerful role in what we see, say Prof Gary Lupyan from the University of Wisconsin and Emily Ward from Yale University.
These images...
According to a team of Russian scientists reporting today at the Goldschmidt conference in Italy, the Chelyabinsk meteorite either collided with another...
According to a new mice study reported in the Journal of Neuroscience, immune system cells called to the brain in response to stress lead to anxiety symptoms.
This...
A collector from Austria has found what experts say is the oldest globe to show the Americas.
The ostrich egg globe was made in 1504. Scientists say the...
Dr Gerald Allen, a research associate at the Western Australian Museum, and his colleagues from Australia have described a new species of shark from eastern...
Biologist Dr Chris Stapleton from the United Kingdom has described two new genera of African mountain bamboos.
Oldeania alpina looks like a Phyllostachys...
A new animal study reported in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that nocturnal light exposure may induce depressive responses and alter neuronal structure.
The...
According to Dr Peter Jonason from the University of Western Sydney and his colleagues, people who stay up late at night are more likely to display anti-social...
Researchers at the Loyola University Medical Center have reported the first known case of a patient hallucinating music that was familiar to people around...
Researchers from Japan and Indonesia have developed the first scientific method to verify authenticity of exotic Kopi Luwak, the world’s most expensive...
Nile crocodiles, American alligators and other crocodilians enjoy fruits along with their normal meat-heavy diets of mammals, birds, and fish, according...
