Aug 31, 2016 by News Staff

According to a study led by Dr. Attila Andics of the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, dogs use the left hemisphere to process words and...

Aug 31, 2016 by News Staff

An international group of researchers has discovered that two regions in the genomes of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) are changing in response...

Aug 31, 2016 by News Staff

For the first time, physicists have discovered that in an extremely high magnetic field ‘massless’ Dirac electrons can acquire a mass. A false-color...

Aug 31, 2016 by News Staff

Using five space- and four ground-based telescopes, an international team of astronomers has found the most distant galaxy cluster to date. This composite...

Aug 30, 2016 by News Staff

Paleontologists say they’ve discovered the fossilized remains of a small-bodied pterosaur, a prehistoric flying reptile, which lived roughly 77 million...

Aug 30, 2016 by News Staff

Milky Way’s center is currently a quiet place. But it wasn’t always this way – a new study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (arXiv.org...

Aug 30, 2016 by News Staff

‘Lucy,’ perhaps the world’s most famous early human ancestor, probably died after falling from a tall tree, according to an international team of...

Aug 30, 2016 by Natali Anderson

170-million-year-old fossilized remains discovered in Patagonia, Argentina, have been identified as a new genus and species of pterosaur. An artist’s...

Aug 29, 2016 by News Staff

In the race to discover the recently proposed Planet Nine, a team of astronomers has discovered ten previously unknown objects beyond the orbit of the...

Aug 29, 2016 by News Staff

A new study in the journal Scientific Reports shows that adaptation isn’t just about creating new tools for survival, it’s also about tweaking the...

Aug 29, 2016 by News Staff

On August 27, 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully performed its first of 36 close flybys of the giant planet Jupiter. Jupiter’s north polar region...

Aug 29, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Hubble Space Telescope team has released an incredible new image of the binary star Alpha Centauri AB. This Hubble WFPC2 image shows Alpha Centauri...

Aug 27, 2016 by News Staff

A new kind of chemical compound can block the protein Ebola virus uses to break out of cells and infect new cells, according to a new study by researchers...

Aug 26, 2016 by News Staff

In the latest edition of Science, an international team of chemists from the United States and Germany captures the fundamental chemistry of berkelium. A...

Aug 26, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

For the first time, researchers have identified a multicomponent RNA virus – one containing different segments of genetic material in separate particles,...

Aug 26, 2016 by News Staff

NASA’s Juno spacecraft will get closer to the cloud tops of Jupiter on Saturday, August 27. The flyby is expected to provide preliminary science data. This...

Aug 26, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to an international team of researchers from Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, people with a variation in a particular gene tend...

Aug 25, 2016 by News Staff

Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Gemini North telescope have found a galaxy that consists almost entirely of dark matter, the mysterious...

Aug 25, 2016 by News Staff

In February 2016, nine instruments onboard ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft serendipitously observed an outburst of gas and dust from the Atum region on Comet...

Aug 25, 2016 by News Staff

A team of scholars translating a unique inscription on a 2,500-year-old Etruscan stele has discovered the name Uni – an important female goddess. Inscribed...