212-million-year-old fossils discovered in New Mexico confirm that Drepanosaurus, a Late Triassic tree-dwelling reptile, was a small-bodied creature with...
A gamma-ray binary discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy approximately 163,000 light-years away, is the first object of its kind ever...
A new study published in the journal PLoS Medicine has found that breastfeeding mothers taking the antiretroviral drugs tenofovir and emtricitabine have...
Rosetta orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Image credit: ESA / AOES Medialab.
ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft is set to complete its mission in a controlled...
Eating raw apple or lettuce may help deodorize garlic breath, according to a study by scientists at the Ohio State University (OSU).
Garlic. Image credit:...
According to a study in rodents led by Prof. Charles Bourque of McGill University, the brain’s biological clock stimulates thirst in the hours before...
A team of physicists from the University of Birmingham and the University of Bath has identified a method to visualize, over a millionth of a billionth...
The combination of seismic activity and water locked away at depth within Mars could be releasing sufficient hydrogen gas to support communities of microorganisms,...
An international team of paleontologists, led by Carleton University researcher Bradley McFeeters, has added another ornithomimid dinosaur to the prehistoric...
An international team of scientists has found a new link between the diversity of bacteria in the human fecal microbiome and levels of visceral fat (body...
A multinational team of researchers has uncovered fossil proteins dating back 3.8 million years — a discovery that will enhance future understanding...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged what may be water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Europa, the sixth-closest moon of Jupiter and...
Recent images from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft reveal small fault scarps on Mercury’s surface. These cliff-like landforms are small enough that planetary...
According to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports, adding cinnamon to your diet can cool your stomach by up to two degrees.
Cinnamon....
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 24, which is found in the constellation of Sculptor.
This image from the...
Paleontologists have described a completely unexpected new species of reptile that lived 230 million years ago (Triassic period).
Dr. Stocker and co-authors...
