According to Prof. Mathieu Ossendrijver of Humboldt University in Germany, Babylonian astronomers used geometry to calculate the position of Jupiter —...
The 5,500 year old cat remains found more than a decade ago in China have been identified as the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) by an international...
NASA’s New Horizons robotic probe captured this image of the night side of Charon on July 17, 2015, nearly three days after closest approach to the Pluto...
A 3D covalent organic framework (COF) constructed from helical organic threads, designed to be mutually weaving at regular intervals, has been synthesized...
In the ruins of the ancient port city of Caesarea, Israeli archaeologists have discovered a magnificent marble statue of ram.
The marble ram unearthed...
Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a new theropod dinosaur that lived 200 million years ago in Wales.
Dracoraptor hanigani restored as a...
Americans share their houses with any of more than 500 different morphospecies of arthropods (insects and their relatives) – at least on a short-term...
A partial carcass of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) with signs of weapon-inflicted injuries suggests people lived in the Eurasian Arctic 10,000...
In a breakthrough discovery detailed in a paper in the journal Nature Physics, a team of physicists from Finland and the United States has found a way...
According to an analysis of satellite data published last month in the journal Geology, the world’s largest canyon system and a large lake may lie under...
One of the nearest supermassive black holes to Earth with active powerful outbursts has been discovered by a team of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra...
An international team of ornithologists from Sweden and New Zealand has described a new genus for a bird species called the lesser moorhen.
A new genus...
A large team of researchers reported this week that it had sequenced the whole genomes of four prehistoric Irish individuals: a Neolithic woman (3343 –...
A new species of bioluminescent shark has been described from eight specimens collected off the Pacific coast of Central America at depths ranging between...
A team of scientists from the United Kingdom has captured first video recordings documenting how New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) make ‘hooked...
According to a team of scientists led by Dr Zongcheng Ling of Shandong University in Weihai, the Chinese lunar rover Yutu has found basalts unlike those...
A pair of jets of very hot gas protrude outwards in perfect symmetry in this striking image of the Herbig-Haro (HH) object HH 24, taken by the NASA/ESA...
HH 34, a curious object in the constellation of Orion, is captured in this amazing image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
This composite image shows...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has beamed back the highest definition images of Nix yet.
This panchromatic image of Pluto’s small moon Nix was taken...
A new species of ornithopod dinosaur has been discovered in Spain dating back 125 million years to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch.
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