A team of scientists in Germany has developed a compound that can transform infrared into warm, white-colored light.
The new compound emits a broadband...
Two artifacts found at Cape Espenberg on the northern coast of the Seward Peninsula in Alaska are the first evidence that Asian metal alloys reached North...
Evidence from bison fossils has enabled researchers to shape a more accurate timeline for the so-called ‘ice-free corridor’ — a route for Pleistocene...
An MIT-led team of scientists has developed a new algorithm – named the CHIRP (Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch priors) —...
In a paper published last week in the journal Current Biology, scientists described a new species of trap-jaw ant found in 99 million-year-old pieces of...
New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides the first archaeological evidence for an early Southeast Asian presence...
A team of scientists from Japan has discovered a completely new geoglyph in the Nazca Desert, southern Peru.
The 98-foot (30 m) long mythical animal in...
Astronomers have uncovered a new type of galaxies, dubbed ‘red geysers,’ with supermassive black hole winds so intense and hot that stars can’t form.
An...
An international team of scientists from Lebanon, Tunisia, France and New Zealand has sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome of the ‘Young Man of...
A new species of ichthyosauriform marine reptile that lived about 248 million years ago (Early Triassic) has been identified from fossils found in Anhui...
NASA has released new images and data on the Kuiper belt object (KBO) 1994 JR1 from the New Horizons spacecraft.
This image of 1994 JR1 was taken by New...
A multinational team of researchers led by University College London (UCL) has found four genes that impact nose shape.
Image showing variation between...
Stone tools and butchered (or scavenged) mastodon bones found at the Page-Ladson site, Florida, show ancient humans lived in the southeastern United States...
An international team of genetic researchers from the United States and Europe has found new evidence that there was an Ice Age refugium in southern Arabia.
Spatial...
NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), the largest airborne observatory in the world, has detected atomic oxygen in the upper...
An international team of scientists has described a previously unknown species of wasp from South Africa and has named it Conobregma bradpitti, after the...
According to a team of scientists headed by Dr. Jean-Jacques Hublin at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, tooth-marks...
![SOFIA/GREAT spectrum of oxygen [OI] superimposed on an image of Mars from NASA’ MAVEN mission. The amount of atomic oxygen computed from SOFIA data is about half the amount expected. Image credit: NASA / DLR / USRA / DSI / MPIfR / GREAT Consortium / MPIfS / Rezac et al / MAVEN.](https://cdn.sci.news/images/2016/05/image_3853-Mars-Atomic-Oxygen-195x110.jpg)
