7,000-year-old water wells unearthed in eastern Germany suggest that prehistoric farmers in Europe were skilled carpenters long before metal was discovered...
An international team of paleontologists has described a new species of mosasaur that lived in freshwater environments about 84 million years ago.
According...
Scientists at the University of Chicago’s Department of the Geophysical Sciences and Enrico Fermi Institute have found the radioactive isotope iron-60...
Emotion helps us recognize words more accurately and quicker, however, we do not remember emotionally intoned speech as accurately as neutral speech, according...
According to an international team of astronomers, bright X-ray flares in nearby galaxies, once assumed to indicate the presence of black holes, can in...
A miniature extraterrestrial version of the Nile River has been spotted on the largest moon of Saturn by ESA’s Cassini spacecraft.
This Cassini image...
Dr Susan Hayes, a facial anthropologist and an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Wollongong in Australia, has reported results of the...
A new study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the Chicxulub asteroid collision, widely thought to have...
Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley have identified a gene that helps our body convert dietary carbohydrates into fat. The discovery...
European archaeologists believe they have finally found the exact location of the river harbor of Ostia.
This is an aerial view of Ostia and the position...
An international team of astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 and the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has...
An analysis of genome-wide data from 13 Romani groups collected across Europe shows that the Romani people originated in northwestern India some 1,500...
A computational analysis of the genomes of the papaya, poplar, grape, and a small flowering plant called Arabidopsis thaliana, has identified hundreds...
An international group of astronomers using the Submillimeter Array and the Combined Array for Millimeter-Wave Astronomy has found evidence of what might...
A team of astronomers, led by Dr Mischa Schirmer of the Gemini Observatory, using observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Gemini South...
Scientists led by Prof Sebastian Jessberger of the University of Zurich’s Brain Research Institute, Switzerland, have discovered that neural stem cells...
