Archaeologists in Israel say they have uncovered the earliest known Neolithic quarry in the southern Levant.
Kaizer Hilltop quarry: step-like morphology...
A team of scientists at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, has developed transparent wood that could be used in building materials...
According to Prof. Daniel P. Whitmire from the University of Arkansas, the suspected Planet Nine triggers comet showers linked to mass extinctions on Earth...
An international team of archaeologists has found a religious artifact with a sacred text in the Etruscan language.
The 2,500-year-old Etruscan stele was...
A large team of paleontologists led by University of Liverpool scientist Dr. Karl Bates has developed computer models of the bodies of sauropod dinosaurs...
An international team of scientists, led by Prof. Roger Anderson from the University of Ulster at Coleraine and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at...
Planetary researchers on NASA’s Cassini mission have published a new study describing the process that drives and sustains long-lived geysers on Enceladus,...
Dr. David Reich from Harvard Medical School and his colleagues have produced a world map of Denisovan and Neanderthal ancestry in 120 diverse populations....
New observations of HD 80606b raise questions about origins of so-called hot Jupiters, a class of short-period gas giants with a mass similar to Jupiter’s,...
Researchers on the AstRoMap project, a coordination action supported by the European Commission, have surveyed the state of the art of astrobiology in...
A team of scientists, led by Ohio State University cognitive researcher Prof. Aleix Martinez, has identified a universal facial expression that is interpreted...
Ornithologists from South Korea and Poland have shown for the first time that Antarctic brown skuas (Stercorarius antarcticus), a species that typically...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of UGC 4459, a type of galaxy known as an irregular dwarf galaxy.
This image, taken by...
An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Brooke Flammang from New Jersey Institute of Technology, has identified unique anatomical features in a...
A multinational team of scientists has created the first 3D atlas of the skeletal anatomy of the dodo (Raphus cucullatus), based upon two exceptional skeletons.
The...
Fieldwork at the Pliocene site of Kantis, Kenya, has yielded fossilized teeth and forearm bone attributable to Australopithecus afarensis, a hominid species...
Earth’s moon wandered off its original axis about 3 billion years ago, a new study led by Southern Methodist University planetary researcher Matt Siegler...
