This image, captured by Cassini’s wide-angle camera, was photographed when the mission was 40,000 miles (65,000 km) from Tethys, and Saturn and its rings...
Various species and subspecies of canids (wolves, coyotes, etc.) have distinguishing repertoires of howling, according to a team of scientists who analyzed...
An infant star lights up the nebula IC 2631 in this remarkable new image from the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile.
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According to a study published in the journal eLife, cyanobacteria cells act as spherical microlenses, allowing the cell to see a light source and move...
Archaeologists in Sweden say they have uncovered the remains of a 9,200-year-old storage for fermented fish.
Archaeologists discovered the remains of a...
A group of paleontologists from the United States, the UK and China has discovered two new suspension-feeding species of the bony fish genus Rhinconichthys.
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According to a study published today in the journal Nature Communications, a recently discovered species of early human ancestor called Australopithecus...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of the startlingly symmetrical nebula Hen 2-437.
This Hubble image shows the young planetary...
DNA evidence lifted from the bones and teeth of hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe from 35,000 years ago (Late Pleistocene) to 7,000 years ago (early...
A team of researchers, directed by Dr. Chris Hamilton of the Auburn University Museum of Natural History, has discovered a previously unknown species of...
A team of planetary researchers from the United States has found surprisingly little correlation between how dense a Saturn’s ring might appear to be...
According to a new study published in the journal Nature, ravens (Corvus corax) share human ability to think abstractly about other minds, adapting their...
A team of scientists led by Dr. Michele Menegon of the Museo delle Scienze in Trento, Italy, has described a previously undocumented species of chameleon...
A team of Turkish archaeologists have found an early Christian church in an ancient underground settlement near modern-day Nevsehir, the capital district...
A large multinational team of scientists has successfully sequenced the whole genome of the common bed bug (Cimex lectularius), uncovering several traits...
A team of scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, has created a glassy carbon nanolattice with single struts shorter than 1 μm...
A team of archaeologists in Israel has uncovered evidence of tortoise bones at the Middle Pleistocene (420,000 to 300,000 years ago) site of Qesem Cave,...
