A catastrophic tsunami occurred sometimes between 7,910 and 7,290 BCE with an extreme 16 m (52.5 feet) wave height and 1.5-3.5 km (0.93-2.2 mile) run-up...
Kernowite is a new mineral that has been found only in an old specimen collected at a single location in Cornwall, UK.
Kernowite (green color). Image credit:...
Using data from the Context Camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, planetary researchers have generated an 8-trillion-pixel global map of...
In new research, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Australian National University and the University of Guam analyzed...
A team of paleontologists from Oregon State University and the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has found a new genus...
Zoologists believe they have found a previously unknown species of tree hyrax in the Taita Hills, Kenya.
A female tree hyrax in Ngangao Forest, Taita Hills,...
Astronomers have observed a bright one-sided jet of material ejected at three-quarters the speed of light from the core of the blazar PSO J030947.49+271757.31...
Fleas are not a separate insect order, as previously thought, and are a lineage of scorpionflies, which evolved when they started feeding on the blood...
Using different remote sensing techniques and open access datasets (mainly aerial photography, satellite imagery, and airborne LiDAR), an international...
A new genus and species of prehistoric crocodile, Paludirex vincenti, has been identified from fossils unearthed in Queensland, Australia.
Paludirex vincenti...
The supplementation of a novel strain of Bifidobacterium longum, designated APC1472, in otherwise healthy overweight and obese individuals reduced their...
C/2020 X3, spotted by the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), is part of the Kreutz family, a group of comets with related orbits that...
Physicists from the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) report the results of a new search for leptoquarks...
A partial thigh bone found in southern Brazil belongs to a previously unknown species of theropod dinosaur.
A partial left femur of Erythrovenator jacuiensis....
Dr. Johan Hermans, a botanist specializing in orchids and an honorary research associate of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has discovered a new species...
Avocado affects digestive physiology of the intestinal microbiota as well as its composition and metabolic functions, according to a study published in...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking photo of the lenticular galaxy NGC 1947.
This Hubble image shows NGC 1947,...
The wings of an angelic figure, complete with halo, can be seen sweeping up and off the top of the frame in a new image from ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft,...
Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have produced spectacular images of 1998 KY26, a future asteroid target of JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft.
This...
