Every individual has a unique brain anatomy, according to new research from the University of Zurich in Switzerland; and this uniqueness is the result...
Modern-day Southeast Asian populations are the result of mixing among four ancient populations, including multiple waves of genetic material from more...
A multinational team of researchers led by University of Cambridge scientist Dr. Alessandro Rossi and University of Adelaide’s Dr. Giuseppe Tettamanzi...
A newly-discovered flatfish species, the Baltic flounder (Platichthys solemdali), is the first endemic fish known from the Baltic Sea, according to new...
Archaeologists working in the southern Chinese Loess Plateau have unearthed stone tools crafted at least 2.1 million years ago by early humans. The discovery,...
Senescent cells increase in many tissues with aging and are often associated with inflammation, tissue damage, and age-related diseases. Senolytics are...
The High Acuity Wide field K-band Imager (HAWK-I) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile has taken the most detailed infrared image so far of a...
A team of Argentinian paleontologists has rewritten the paleontology textbooks by finding that giant, long-necked, herbivorous dinosaurs known as sauropods...
Understanding which chemical elements are present in a star in what abundances can help astronomers estimate the makeup of planets that orbit them, which...
NASA’s New Horizons team has released the first official global mosaic and topographic maps of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.
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A team of researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, CIBERDEM and the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre has demonstrated that a single...
An international team of researchers from Australia, Japan, the United States and Belgium has successfully extracted bright pink biological pigments from...
New research indicates that nitrogen, one of the most-common elements in the Universe and the dominant gas in the atmosphere of Earth, becomes a metallic...
Astronomers using NSF’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have found a quasar with the brightest radio emission ever observed in the early Universe.
An...
World’s insectivorous birds eat 400 to 500 million metric tons of beetles, flies, ants, moths, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets and other arthropods per...
After a journey of 42 months and 2 billion miles (3.2 billion km), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft finally reached its intended...
According to a study published in the journal Science, the earliest New World dogs were not domesticated from North American wolves; instead, they form...
