A team of marine scientists working off the northeast coast of Necker Island, the Hawaiian Archipelago, has encountered a new-to-science species of deep-sea...
Neanderthals living in what is now France may have used powdered manganese dioxide for fire making purposes, according to a new study published in the...
An international group of scientists has successfully sequenced the whole mitochondrial genome of the ancient glyptodont – a heavily armored herbivorous...
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that a giant extrasolar planet called 2MASSWJ 1207334-393254b has patchy clouds and...
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in Chile, an astronomer from the United States has taken a detailed look...
A team of biologists and robotic researchers from Australia and Germany has solved a mystery of how wasps make sure that they find their way home.
The...
According to a study published in the journal eLife, cyanobacteria cells act as spherical microlenses, allowing the cell to see a light source and move...
A team of scientists led by Dr. Michele Menegon of the Museo delle Scienze in Trento, Italy, has described a previously undocumented species of chameleon...
A shape-shifting frog from Ecuador, a giant virus from Siberia, a bioluminescent shark, a ruby seadragon, and the world’s smallest snail are among the...
A team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of primitive duck-billed dinosaur, called Eotrachodon orientalis, in Alabama.
Eotrachodon orientalis:...
According to a new study published this week in the journal Current Biology, Secretary birds can kick with 195 Newtons, which is equivalent to about 5...
A new genus of tree hole breeding frogs has been described and named by a group of scientists led by University of Delhi researcher S. D. Biju.
An adult...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has obtained a stunning image of a star cluster called Trumpler 14, one of the largest gatherings of hot, massive and bright...
Motion-sensitive cameras placed at several sites in Panama have captured images of the bush dog (Speothos venaticus), one of the most enigmatic of the...
Dr. Carlos Leopardi-Verde of the Universidad de Colima and his colleagues from Mexico and the United States have described a new orchid species from the...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an incredible image of the nearby galaxy NGC 5408.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...
A team of scientists led by University of Melbourne researcher Dr Matthew Le Feuvre has described twenty new species of freshwater fish from the rivers...
Dogs can recognize emotions in both dogs and humans by combining information from different senses, according to a study published today in the journal...
