A new species of egg-eating sea snake has been recently discovered in a formalin-filled jar in the Copenhagen Natural History Museum, Denmark.
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Astronomers using ESO’s 4.1-m Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) have catalogued more than 84 million stars in the central parts...
An international team of astronomers used Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to look at the host galaxy of one of the most luminous...
British scientists have found a way of changing the color of metals including gold, silver and aluminium.
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An international group of astronomers has discovered surprising gaseous spiral arms in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128, also known as Centaurus A.
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Astronomers using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Fredrick C. Gillett Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai‘I, have photographed the...
An international team of astronomers using the CSIRO Australia Telescope Compact Array radio telescope in New South Wales has captured an image of a supersonic...
A team of astrophysicists using ESA’s International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) has reported the first direct detection of radioactive...
Astronomers have unveiled new high-resolution infrared images of Uranus, revealing in detail the bizarre weather of the seventh planet from the Sun.
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An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has studied a filament of dark matter in three dimensions for the first time.
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In a new genetic study led by Swedish scientists, the indigenous peoples of the Argentinean part of the Andes have been found to carry a gene that accelerates...
An arachnologist from Germany has discovered a harvestman with a leg span of more than 13 inches (33 cm) during a research trip to Laos.
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A team of citizen scientists and professional astronomers has discovered a circumbinary planet in a huge four-star system some 5,000 light years away.
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New X-Ray observations made with ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Swift space telescopes have provided evidence for the interaction of fierce stellar winds...
Researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) claim that they have found the accurate spot in Rome where Julius Caesar was stabbed to death...
Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have discovered huge amounts of water vapor in a cold pre-stellar core in the constellation of Taurus...
Cambridge researchers have discovered a new population of enormous, rapidly growing supermassive black holes in the early Universe.
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