An international group of paleontologists has found two incomplete bones from an ancient parrot with a mass of 7 kg, double that of the heaviest known...
A multinational team of researchers has sequenced the genomes of Mexican, Guatemalan and West Indian avocados, and the most commercially popular hybrid...
A new study, published recently in the journal Depression and Anxiety, provides evidence that consumption of chocolate, particularly dark chocolate, may...
Gorilla diets are characterized by large amounts of fruits and plants. Hard-object feeding is not generally associated with these great apes as the high...
A new genus and species of sauropodomorph dinosaur has been described — after its fossilized remains spent more than three decades sitting in a museum.
The...
An international team of astronomers from the United States, Germany and Israel has discovered a new class of pulsators that vary in brightness every 5...
A new study, published in the journal PLoS Medicine, suggests that more frequent social contact during early and midlife may build cognitive reserve, which...
A team of scientists from Indiana University and the professional network LinkedIn has created the first global map of labor flow.
Park et al revealed...
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered an enormous black hole at the center of Holmberg 15A, a supergiant elliptical galaxy...
New research, published recently in the journal Evolution, shows that some dinosaurs may have taken flight thanks to sex appeal.
Persons & Currie explored...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking view of UGC 2369, a pair of interacting galaxies.
Two interacting galaxies UGC 2369N and UGC...
A team of researchers at Imperial College London, UK, has created micromachines that sense and respond to external chemical signals through activation...
SMSS J160540.18-144323.1, an ultra-metal-poor red giant star located in the halo of the Milky Way, on the other side of the Galaxy about 35,000 light-years...
Nadia Paez, a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, and Pontifical Catholic University’s Professor Santiago Ron have discovered eleven new...
By measuring the distance from the Sun to thousands of classical Cepheid stars and the associated young stellar populations scattered across the Milky...
WASP-121b is about two times bigger than Jupiter and 1.2 times more massive. Discovered in 2016, the planet is located 881 light-years away in the constellation...
An international team of scientists has isolated and sequenced RNA from the permafrost-preserved liver, cartilage and muscle tissue of a 14,300-year-old...
A new species of marine predator that lived about 506 million years ago (Cambrian period) has been identified from exceptionally well-preserved fossils...
