Feb 23, 2015 by News Staff

This new image from the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases NGC 4424, a 12th magnitude barred spiral galaxy...

Feb 23, 2015 by News Staff

According to a group of genetic scientists led by Prof Victor Albert of the University at Buffalo, the carnivorous plant Utricularia gibba, commonly known...

Feb 23, 2015 by News Staff

Almost 2,000 gold coins, discovered by amateur divers near the port city of Caesarea in Israel, form the largest single hoard of medieval gold coins ever...

Feb 23, 2015 by News Staff

Using the unique observing capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have produced the most detailed picture so far of an edge-on...

Feb 23, 2015 by News Staff

Using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) X-ray telescopes, astronomers have discovered that the super-fast...

Feb 21, 2015 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Science Advances strengthens the view that human settlements of all times and places function in the same way by manifesting...

Feb 21, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study led by Dr Neil Harrison of the University of Sussex, UK, humans are susceptible to the so-called temperature contagion. Windbeeches...

Feb 20, 2015 by News Staff

The Solar System’s movement through a dark-matter halo enveloping our Milky Way Galaxy may perturb the orbits of comets and lead to additional heating...

Feb 20, 2015 by News Staff

ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has obtained a spectacular color image of the southernmost portion of Phlegra Montes, a mountain range in the Cebrenia quadrangle...

Feb 20, 2015 by News Staff

A study reported in the journal Science provides new support for the so-called Cope’s rule – a theory in biology that states that animals tend...

Feb 20, 2015 by News Staff

A new study of elliptical galaxies led by Dr Akos Bogdan of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has revealed a surprising link between galaxies’...

Feb 20, 2015 by News Staff

Paleontologists Dean Lomax of the University of Manchester, UK, and Prof Judy Massare of Brockport College in New York have discovered a new species of...

Feb 19, 2015 by News Staff

Using the ULTRACAM instrument on the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope, a group of astronomers led by Jakub Bochinski of Open University in Milton Keynes,...

Feb 19, 2015 by News Staff

A new study led by Dr Andrew Garrett from the University of California, Berkeley, provides evidence that a common ancestor of the Indo-European languages...

Feb 19, 2015 by News Staff

Marine biologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Western Australia Museum have made a surprising discovery in the waters off the coast...

Feb 19, 2015 by News Staff

Nicotine and other chemicals found in flowers of tobacco and other plants could be the right prescription for diseased bumblebees and bees, says a group...

Feb 19, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has provided its first views of Nix and Hydra – the small moons of Pluto. Nix (identified by a orange diamond) and...

Feb 18, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study reported in the journal Evolutionary Biology, bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) only colonized the Mediterranean after...

Feb 18, 2015 by News Staff

Innovative techniques that use satellites to monitor ocean acidification are set to revolutionize the way that scientists study the Earth’s oceans....

Feb 18, 2015 by News Staff

According to a group of ornithologists led by Dr Christopher James Clark of the University of California, Riverside, the two subspecies of a hummingbird...