Northern Arizona University scientist Prof Nadine Barlow and Dr Joseph Boyce from the University of Hawaii have discovered a new class of Martian impact...
Scientists led by Ines Melendez from Curtin University have identified 70 intact steroidal compounds in a 380-million-year-old crustacean fossil from the...
A mysterious black pebble found by an Egyptian geologist at the Libyan Desert Glass strewnfield provides the first ever evidence of a comet entering Earth’s...
New research, reported in the Geophysical Research Letters, changes our understanding of how the Hawaiian Islands formed.
Haleakala Crater in East Maui...
A newly discovered fossil of an early ray-finned fish, named Saurichthys curionii, from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland reveals a previously unknown...
An international team of astronomers has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, to observe...
According to a study published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, insects modify calling and mating behavior in anticipation of storms.
Curcurbit beetle,...
According to new research reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, water vapor changes in the stratosphere contribute to warmer...
In a new paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, British researchers have reported the discovery of giant ice channels beneath the floating Filchner-Ronne...
Two Australian biologists have described a new species of leaf-tailed gecko in the genus Saltuarius.
The Cape Melville Leaf-tailed Gecko with regenerated...
Genetic researchers reporting in the journal Nature Genetics have discovered an additional 48 genetic variants influencing the risk of developing multiple...
A population of false killer whales, Pseudorca crassidens, in waters off northeastern New Zealand developed a relationship with bottlenose dolphins to...
In a new study accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal (arXiv.org), astronomers show that a previously known red dwarf star called LP 876-10...
Entomologists have described two new species of the nemesiid spider genus Chaco from Rocha Province, Uruguay.
Chaco costai, male. Image credit: Montes...
In a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (arXiv.org), astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the University of California...
A large group of researchers from Canada has developed a new tuberculosis vaccine based on a genetically modified cold virus.
This colorized scanning electron...
Planetary scientists have discovered remnants of giant supervolcanoes in a region in the northern highlands of Mars known as Arabia Terra. The discovery...
Scientists from Australia and New Zealand have analyzed more than fifty fossilized feces of the South Island Giant Moa, Upland Moa, Heavy-footed Moa and...
Scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have discovered a peptide in the venom of the Chinese red-headed centipede,...
Paleontologists from Museum Victoria, Australia, and the Smithsonian Institution have rediscovered what they claim are the oldest sirenian fossils ever...
