According to a new study led by Dr Yonggang Nie from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Zoology, bamboo-eating giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)...
A group of scientists headed by Dr Jeremy Kerr from the University of Ottawa, Canada, has discovered that climate change is rapidly shrinking the area...
A team of neuroscientists at Duke University published two separate studies today, one involving rats and the other involving rhesus macaque monkeys, that...
A team of astronomers led by Dr Jochen Greiner of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany, has demonstrated a link between the bright...
A team of paleontologists has discovered a new genus and species of horned dinosaur, called Wendiceratops pinhornensis, in southern Alberta, Canada.
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The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has snapped yet another amazing view of the dwarf planet.
This image...
Active regions of the Sun are highlighted in this composite image combining observations from a fleet of sun-monitoring satellites: NASA’s NuSTAR (Nuclear...
Astronomers at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield, UK, have taught a machine to automatically recognize and classify galaxies in astronomical...
A team of scientists headed by Prof Paul Alewood of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, has discovered more than 3,000 new peptide toxins...
A new study led by Dr Thomas Szkopek of McGill University suggests that black phosphorus could help researchers surmount one of the big challenges for...
Scientists with NASA’s New Horizons mission have produced a color map of the dwarf planet Pluto.
This map of the dwarf planet Pluto was created from...
A team of astronomers led by Dr Marcus Lohr of the Open University, UK, has discovered the first five star system containing two eclipsing binary stars.
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According to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, per-mile greenhouse gas emissions of an electric vehicle deployed as an autonomous...
The well-preserved, 2,000-year-old miqwe (ritual bath) was found below a living room floor during renovations in a private house in Ein Karem, an old Arab...
According to an international team of scientists, the ancient monkey, known as Victoriapithecus, had tiny but remarkably wrinkled brain.
Brain of Victoriapithecus...
A new color image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft shows a series of striking dark regularly-spaced spots along Pluto’s equator.
NASA’s New Horizons...
Entomologist Dr Andrew Hicks from the University of Colorado has described a new species of the leafhopper genus Flexamia from the New Jersey Pine Barrens,...
Using NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) space observatory, astronomers have detected X-rays from five supermassive black holes previously...