According to an observational study published in the journal JAMA, varicose veins may be a warning sign of a type of blood clot known as a deep venous...
An ambitious LiDAR (light detection and ranging) survey of forested areas in Guatemala has revealed more than 60,000 previously undetected ancient structures,...
Astronomers have discovered a supernova that occurred 10.5 billion years ago, when the Universe was less than a quarter of its present age.
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Astronomers have discovered that a giant star called R Sculptoris is surrounded by giant ‘clumps’ of stellar dust that are peeling away from the shedding...
Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi) may have moved like modern elephants with infants in matriarchal groups. That’s according to a team of U.S. paleontologists...
An international team of researchers has successfully sequenced, assembled and analyzed the genome of the Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), an enigmatic...
Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on Monday released a colorful image of a small galaxy in the constellation of Sagittarius.
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NASA has released beautiful new images of Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere from the tenth close flyby of its Juno spacecraft.
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A new image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1398 in striking detail.
This image shows spectacular ribbons of gas and...
A new species of large Pacific octopus has been discovered in the waters of Prince William Sound, Alaska.
The frilled giant Pacific octopus. Image credit:...
An international team of paleontologists has found the remains of an unusual prehistoric bear that lived 3.5 million years ago (Pliocene epoch) in Canada’s...
A distinctive new species of antbird has been discovered in the humid montane forests of the San Martin region in north-central Peru.
The Cordillera Azul...
A team of researchers from the Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, and the Amway Botanical Research Center...
In a paper published in the journal Science, a team of physicists from Japan and Germany reports the most precise measurement ever made of the magnetic...
An international team of scientists from the United States and Indonesia has described a new species of flowering plant of the genus Rafflesia from the...
The trackway of a plant-eating sauropod dinosaur has been excavated in the Jura Mountains, France. This 508-foot (155 m) line of footsteps is the longest...
A hoard of 21 Islamic gold dinars, 2,200 silver coins, and gold artifacts dating to the 12th century CE has been unearthed by archaeologists digging at...
NASA’s Juno orbiter captured a series of beautiful images during its ninth flyby of Jupiter on October 24, 2017.
This image of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed an extremely rare cosmic phenomenon, called a ‘light echo,’ in Messier 82, a star-forming galaxy located...
A group of paleontologists from the University of Portsmouth has discovered two new species of mammals that lived 145 million years ago in what is now...
