NASA’s High Definition Earth Viewing experiment (HDEV) is now live-streaming views of our planet from space captured by HD cameras.
HDEV placed four...
The Alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii), long thought to be a single species, is actually three species, according to a new study published...
U.S. paleontologists have discovered a new raptor dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago.
This...
U.S. Geological Survey researchers have produced the first complete global geologic map of the Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede.
Global geologic map...
A new study, conducted by a large consortium involving more than 30 groups from the United States, Canada, Australia and European countries, provides a...
The genome sequence of a man who lived in what is modern Spain 7,000 years ago reveals that European hunter-gatherers were dark-skinned and blue-eyed.
This...
A group of archaeologists digging at the Neolithic site of Ayia Varvara Asprokremnos, Cyprus, has unearthed an early Neolithic building and a number of...
Entomologists from Bolivia and Brazil have described a new species of rhinoceros beetle from a subhumid forest in the Southern Bolivian Andes.
Oryctophileurus...
Entomologists from Utah State University have described two new gorgeous species in the rare wasp genus Abernessia.
Abernessia giga, female. Image credit:...
Physicists using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole have detected for the first time mysterious, high-energy neutrinos that originate outside...
According to a study published in the Journal of Food Science, a little known fruit called buffaloberry (Shepherdia argentea) might be successfully grown...
Paleontologists have described a new species of giant, spineless hedgehog that lived in what is today the Gargano peninsula of Italy during the late Miocene,...
Tert-butyl hydroquinone (TBHQ) – a common food additive – may protect people from the avian influenza A strain H7N9, according to a new study published...
Researchers from Australia and the United States have documented a massive extinction among bee populations, concurrent with an event that wiped out dinosaurs...
Entomologists Dr Renzo Perissinotto from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and Dr Philippe Moretto from France...
New research led by archaeologists at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, is the first large-scale look at the settlement patterns and power of...
A team of scientists led by Dr Franck Marchis from the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute teamed up with amateur astronomers to discover that the...
A newly discovered fossil of an early ray-finned fish, named Saurichthys curionii, from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland reveals a previously unknown...
