In a new study published in the journal eLife, scientists apply big-data analysis to reveal the full extent of viruses’ impact on the evolution of humans...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have taken the first-ever image of a water snow-line within a protoplanetary...
A team of paleontologists has found fossil fragments from a remarkable new species of theropod dinosaur that walked our planet around 94 million years...
For the second time, a clinical strain of Escherichia coli with the colistin resistance gene mcr-1 has been detected in humans in the United States, according...
Sunflowers. Image credit: Betty Jo Tindle / CC BY-SA 3.0.
The one fact about plants that most people probably remember from school is that they use sunlight...
An international team of researchers from the United States and Australia has made a successful vaccine formulation that targets pathological proteins...
The eye-rolling behavior of mantis shrimp helps them see the world, says a team of biologists led by Nicholas Roberts of the University of Bristol, UK.
Mantis...
Wild Brazilian bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) use stones to pound open defended food, including cashew nuts. And this activity dates back...
The latest images released by NASA’s HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) team show ‘Morse code’ dunes on the Martian surface.
‘Morse...
Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of our Solar System just...
A group of astronomers has used the High Acuity Wide-field K-band Imager (HAWK-I), an infrared instrument installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT)...
An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Niels Kjærgaard from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, has used steerable ‘optical tweezers’...
Astronomers have succeeded in obtaining an infrared spectrum of the recently discovered brown dwarf WISE J085510.83-071442.5 (WISE 0855 for short), providing...
The subject of this Hubble image is LEDA 56779, a spiral galaxy located 300 million light-years away in the constellation of Hercules.
This image from...
Apologies can help improve the feelings of someone hurt. Image credit: Andrew Yee / CC BY.
Have you ever felt deserving of an apology and been upset when...
Members of NASA’s Juno mission have been busying themselves, getting the spacecraft ready for operations in orbit around Jupiter.
This artist’s rendering...
A hoard of 16 rare silver coins dating to 135-126 BC (Hasmonean period) has been found by a team of Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists in Modi’in,...
Beautiful 1,500-year-old mosaics depicting Noah’s ark, animals, and the parting of the Red Sea have been discovered by archaeologists excavating a synagogue...
