European scientists examined liquid basalt at record high pressures and temperatures to better understand how our planet evolved billions of years ago.
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An object that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February 2013 initially measured 20-m across and was about 4,452 million years old, according to three...
Entomologists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have described 277 new species of braconid wasps in the tribe Heterospilini.
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A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences correlates 93 small earthquakes near Snyder, Texas between 2009...
According to new research reported in the journal Scientific Reports (full paper), infertile clay in oceans of the early Earth may have been the birthplace...
Researchers reporting in the journal Climate of the Past have identified regions of Antarctica they say could record the past 1.5 million years of Earth’s...
Using camera traps, British biologists have captured photographs of the world’s least known cat, the bay cat (Pardofelis badia).
The Bay Cat, Pardofelis...
A team of researchers reported the first-ever discovery of a black hole in a globular star cluster in our Milky Way Galaxy.
This Chandra X-ray image of...
An Australian-U.S. team of paleontologists has found a unique fossil of a huge, carnivorous platypus that lived in what is now Australia during the late...
Researchers have developed a new technique that is able to determine whether a particular genetic sequence comes from an individual’s mother or father....
German researchers have developed an innovative approach for measuring blood glucose levels in diabetic patients.
A new painless technique uses infrared...
Belgian biologist has described two new colorful species of frogs of the genus Pristimantis from northern South America.
Pristimantis jamescameroni. Image...
Astronomers used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to obtain the best view yet of our closest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri.
Proxima Centauri. Image...
Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology have discovered that dogs communicate more information about their feelings with their tails than...
According to a team of researchers led by Dr Silvia Bradamante from Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies in Milan, Italy, microgravity accelerates...
By using neurotoxins produced by bacteria of the genus Clostridium (C. botulinum and C. tetani), commonly known as Botox and Tetanus toxin respectively,...
Astronomers have reported the discovery of a magnetic field in the Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas that will plunge into our Galaxy in...
A team of scientists from UK and Germany used a 42-ft telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, to determine how the magnetic field...
