According to a new study published in the journal Science, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake that struck 609 km beneath the Sea of Okhotsk near Kamchatka, Russia,...
Simulating paleoclimates in the Sahara region, a team of researchers from Germany and United Kingdom has found evidence of three major river systems that...
The modern-day tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) traces its lineage back to the Lower Cretaceous period – a time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth,...
Oceanographers led by Dr William Sager from the University of Houston have discovered what they say is the biggest single volcano yet documented on our...
An international team of biologists has described five new species of Vesper bats from Senegal.
Image of Nycticeinops schlieffenii which is represented...
According to an international team of scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an asteroid or comet that landed in...
Dr Robert Gess from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg has discovered what he says is the oldest known land-living animal from Gondwana,...
A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a beautiful close-up view of an object named Herbig-Haro...
A study of 1,300 stone hand axes found at 80 Neanderthal sites in France, Germany, Belgium, Britain and the Netherlands shows that two cultural traditions...
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquity Authority (IAA) have unearthed thousands of pottery fragments, clay lamps and figurines in the City of David in...
According to a new study reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, climate change may have driven the collapse of Eastern Mediterranean civilizations...
A team of researchers reporting in the journal Analytical Chemistry has developed an innovative complex method for verifying the authenticity and rooting...
According to a team of scientists led by Dr Ross Fitzgerald from the Roslin Institute and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, cows may be a source...
A study by entomologists from Bulgaria and Russia provides new interesting information on the life habits and the distribution of the giant water bug Lethocerus...
According to a study published in journal Nature Communications, sleep deprivation can make us crave junk food more than healthy food.
The study sheds...
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Tel Aviv University have unearthed about four hundred Byzantine coins, two hundred Samaritan...
An international team of entomologists has described a new, bizarre species of wasp that rides on the back of damselflies before laying eggs inside damselfly...
A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority has discovered a 1,000-year-old Crusader building in the Christian Quarter of the Old City...
