Astronomers have used ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope to produce a stunning new image of a large stellar nursery called the Prawn Nebula.
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Dr Fred Kraus from the University of Michigan has described three new species of frogs in the genus Oreophryne from Papua New Guinea.
Oreophryne cameroni...
A team of scientists reporting in the journal Biological Psychiatry has been able to erase dangerous drug-associated memories in mice and rats without...
According to a new study published in the journal Science, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake that struck 609 km beneath the Sea of Okhotsk near Kamchatka, Russia,...
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra space observatory have discovered enormous arms of X-ray emitting plasma in the Coma cluster of galaxies.
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NASA scientists reported Thursday that the Mars rover Curiosity has not found any clear signs of methane, a gas that on our planet is a strong indicator...
According to a study reported in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, a new gonorrhea treatment has successfully eliminated gonococcal infection from female...
Two herpetologists, Dr Theodore Papenfuss of the University of California at Berkeley and Dr James Parham of California State University in Fullerton,...
Scientists from Canada and the United States have isolated a new unicellular anaerobic eukaryote from brackish estuarine sediment collected just below...
An international collaboration of physicists conducting experiments at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has determined for the first...
Archaeologists from the United States and Israel have discovered well-preserved lower levels of what they believe is an early Roman period mansion, possibly...
British scientists have answered the question about which direction the centre of our planet spins. The inner core, made up of solid iron, superrotates...
According to a team of astronomers from Australia and Europe reporting in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, IRAS 15445-5449 – an...
An international team of ornithologists has discovered a new species of ground-warbler on Luzon Island of the Philippine archipelago.
Three ground-warbler...
Simulating paleoclimates in the Sahara region, a team of researchers from Germany and United Kingdom has found evidence of three major river systems that...
New radiocarbon dating on seashell beads found at the Paleolithic site of Ksar Akil in Lebanon indicates that the earliest fully modern humans arrived...
According to Dr David Penney and his colleagues at the University of Manchester, UK, the existence of ancient DNA in amber fossils is highly unlikely.
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According to a team of planetary scientists led by Dr Manuel Roda from the Utrecht University, a huge impact crater on Mars known as Aram Chaos formed...
