Pareledone charcoti, a shallow-water species of octopus from the Antarctic, uses an unique strategy to transport oxygen in its blood, says a new study...
An international group of ornithologists led by Dr Jorge Enrique Avendaño of the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá has described a new species of tapaculo...
Eight, mostly complete talons of the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) from the Krapina Neanderthal site in present-day Croatia may be part of...
According to a new study led by Yan Xu of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, our Galaxy is at least 50 percent larger than is commonly estimated.
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According to a team of scientists at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, chameleons shift color through active tuning of a lattice of nanocrystals within...
A team of astronomers, led by Dr Alex Geringer-Sameth of Carnegie Mellon University, has detected gamma rays emanating from the recently discovered dwarf...
Dusty star nurseries, clusters and emission nebulae can be seen in this composite image from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope at Paranal Observatory, Chile.
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While cats ignore human music, they are highly responsive to music written especially for them, says a new study reported in the journal Applied Animal...
Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have captured the most detailed image yet of the merging cluster Abell 2256.
This VLA radio...
A multinational team of scientists headed by Dr Adrienne Jochum from the University of Bern, Switzerland, has described two new species of the genus Zospeum...
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences debunks the widely-held conservative notion that early human herders, moving...
Using the data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), astronomers have found nine new ultra-faint Milky Way satellites. Based on the morphological properties,...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new image of the M81 group post-starburst galaxy UGC 8201.
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A group of archaeologists from the University of Oregon and the Bureau of Land Management has found an at least 15,800-year-old orange agate tool at a...
According to a new study reported in the journal European Journal of Human Genetics, millions of modern Asian men are descended from eleven dynastic leaders,...
Astronomers Dr Guillem Anglada-Escudé from the Queen Mary University of London and Dr Mikko Tuomi from the University of Hertfordshire have dismissed...
A team of scientists led by Dr Julio César Dalponte of the Institute for the Conservation of Neotropical Carnivores in Atibaia has described a new species...
A team of archaeologists from the French-Egyptian Centre for the Study of Karnak Temples has made a new discovery near the temple of Ptah at Karnak, Luxor,...
After a seven-year cruise, and a one-year successful mission at the giant asteroid 4 Vesta, NASA’s Dawn space probe today successfully entered the orbit...
