Dec 4, 2014 by News Staff

A multinational group of scientists led by Prof Wil Roebroeks of Leiden University in the Netherlands has discovered the earliest known engraving on a...

Dec 3, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists using the High Resolution Stereo Camera aboard ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft have captured a stunning new image of Hellas Chaos, a large region...

Dec 3, 2014 by News Staff

A team of researchers at the University of Bristol, UK, has created a device that enables its users to touch and feel three-dimensional holograms in thin...

Dec 3, 2014 by News Staff

According to a new NASA-led study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the melt rate of glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West...

Dec 3, 2014 by News Staff

Human eyes can detect light at wavelengths in the visual spectrum; other wavelengths, such as infrared and ultraviolet, are supposed to be invisible, but...

Dec 3, 2014 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Nature Communications provides overwhelming evidence that the human skeleton found under a car park in Leicester,...

Dec 2, 2014 by News Staff

New radiocarbon dates on American mastodon (Mammut americanum) fossils in Alaska and Yukon (eastern Beringia) suggest this species suffered local extinction...

Dec 2, 2014 by News Staff

An international group of astronomers using a 2-meter-class ground-based telescope has detected the shallow transit of a nearby exoplanet called 55 Cancri...

Dec 1, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of a tiny galaxy known as UGC 1281. This image shows the dwarf galaxy UGC 1281....