Bat wings are equipped with an unusual repertoire of very sensitive touch sensors, a new study in the journal Cell Reports has found.
The big brown bat...
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have created a 3D map of the iconic Pillars of Creation.
This image...
A group of researchers led by Dr Johannes Karstensen of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany has discovered unexpectedly low...
A team of paleontologists, co-led by Dr Xing Xu and Dr Xiaoting Zheng of the Linyi University’s Institute of Geology and Paleontology, has discovered...
The Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured some spectacular new images of Pluto, revealing bright and...
According to a new study in the journal Chemical Communications, alkaline hydrothermal vents on the seabed are able to produce simple carbon-based molecules,...
A group of researchers led by Dr Jaime Troncoso-Palacios of the Universidad de Chile in Santiago has described two new species of iguanid lizards from...
Strong new evidence supports a theory that the Sun’s corona is heated by tiny explosions called nanoflares.
Dr Adrian Daw of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight...
Water vapor could have been just as abundant in cosmic molecular clouds a billion years after the Big Bang as it is today, says a group of researchers...
A team of astronomers using three ground-based telescopes in the United States has discovered two super-Earths around a nearby star known as HD 7924.
The...
Stunning new images of Mercury have been produced by combining data from the Mercury Atmosphere and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MASCS) instrument...
A team of researchers co-led by Dr Slawek Tulaczyk of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Dr Jill Mikucki of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,...
A team of scientists from Canada and France has produced a three-dimensional density map of galaxies that spans approximately 2 billion light-years.
A...
An international team of paleontologists led by Dr Fernando Novas of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires has described a new...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have acquired an image of a distant galaxy called UGC 5797.
This image shows the star-forming galaxy...
A group of scientists from Northwestern University and Duke University has found a way to manufacture a liquid nanoscopic laser whose emission properties...
Bumblebees that have been infected by parasites seek out flowers with nicotine in the nectar, says a group of scientists from Royal Holloway University...
‘Red and dead’ galaxies that stopped forming stars in the distant past can sometimes come back to life, find two studies published in the journal Monthly...
According to a group of astronomers led by Dr Daniel Tamayo of the University of Toronto Scarborough’s Centre for Planetary Science and the Canadian...
