An international team of botanists has discovered and described two new species of the African palm genus Raphia from Cameroon and Gabon.
Raphia zamiana:...
Astronomers using the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research (SPHERE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have captured a series...
Paleontologists have unearthed the partial skeleton of an enantiornithine (opposite bird) that lived in what is now Utah approximately 75 million years...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft made its 16th close science flyby of Jupiter on October 29, 2018 and captured stunning images of the gas giant.
This image captured...
An international team of experimental physicists has for the first time determined the structure of ι-N2, a crystallized version of nitrogen.
Turnbull...
Orangutans spontaneously make hook tools out of a straight piece of wire, using them to ‘fish’ for food.
Laumer et al show that orangutans can spontaneously...
Cave paintings in Lubang Jeriji Saléh, a limestone cave in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, have been dated to at least 40,000 years ago.
A rock painting...
Galaxy clusters are some of the most massive objects that can be found in the Universe. A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows one...
Hongyacha, a new type of wild tea plant from the mountains of southern China, contains little or no caffeine, according to a study published in the Journal...
Exposure to blue light significantly decreases systolic blood pressure and increases heart rate, lowering the risk of developing cardiovascular disease,...
A team of astronomers led by Michael Koss of Eureka Scientific Inc. has observed several pairs of galaxies in the final stages of merging together into...
Geologists have discovered a set of 28 footprints left behind by an ancient reptile approximately 310 million years ago in what is now Grand Canyon National...
A new study, published in the Astrophysical Journal, suggests that if a 1- to 2-megawatt (MW) laser were focused through a 30- to 45-m telescope and aimed...
A team of researchers from Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Exeter, UK, has created the soundtrack of the Martian sunrise captured by NASA’s...
An Indonesian species of parrot known as the Goffin’s cockatoo (Cacatua goffiniana) can tear a cardboard sheet into long strips as tools to reach food,...
Two teeth from Neanderthal children who lived 250,000 years ago in what is today France contain evidence of repeated exposure to high levels of lead, a...
A three-species hybrid warbler found in Pennsylvania is the offspring of a hybrid warbler mother and a warbler father from an entirely different genus...
According to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports, the hot brew method extracts more antioxidants from coffee than the cold brew method.
This...
