An international team of researchers has discovered the first unequivocal evidence that humans in prehistoric Saharan Africa used cattle for their milk...
A U.S. team of researchers has described a new single-dose vaccine that provides immunity against the effects of cocaine.
Coca leaf (Marcello Casal Jr....
An anomaly in the behavior of ordinary particles may point to the existence of mirror particles that could be candidates for dark matter responsible for...
Australian scientists have found that daily consumption of dark chocolate can reduce cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks and strokes, in people...
British researchers have reconstructed for the first time how a famous extinct animal – the early tetrapod called Ichthyostega – moved on land.
Reconstruction...
A new study has suggested that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the Harappan civilization.
Archaeological ruins of Mohenjo-daro:...
A team of astronomers at the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii has taken a stunning image of the planetary nebula Sharpless 2-71.
The complex planetary nebula...
By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international team of astrophysicists has observed the active accretion phase of a supermassive...
An international team of astrophysicists has discovered a new heating source in cosmological structure formation.
This artist’s impression shows a supermassive...
Astronomers have discovered a brown dwarf that is more than 99 % hydrogen and helium.
Artist’s impression shows BD+01 2920B in the foreground, on the...
US scientists have discovered fossils of the largest known true crocodile, a creature that roamed what is now Kenya between 2 and 4 million years ago.
The...
A team of US researchers has found new evidence that early Mars was saturated with water and that its atmosphere was considerably thicker, at least 20...
Chinese scientists have discovered fossils of remarkable giant flea-like animals that lived millions years ago in what is now China.
An artist’s impression...
An international team of scientists led by Dr. Tao Deng of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,...
A new study by scientists at the University of Cambridge has confirmed that brains of chronic cocaine users age dramatically faster than their non-drug-using...
A team of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a high-energy neutrino detector at the geographical South Pole in Antarctica, has reported results of a search...
An international team of researchers has found why and how egg-laying reproduction may have led to the extinction of dinosaurs.
Tyrannosaurus rex, one...
Astronomers have for the first time captured images of auroras above the giant planet Uranus.
Uranus auroras, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in...
