Archaeologists excavating the mammoth hunting site of Breitenbach in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, have discovered what they say is the oldest ivory workshop...
Physicists at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-based Science, Japan, have obtained the most unambiguous data to date on the elusive 113th atomic...
A German-Austrian team of scientists has discovered that an ancient Buddhist statue found by a German expedition to Tibet in 1938 is carved from an ataxite,...
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have discovered a treasure of impressive prehistoric artifacts at the Ein Zippori site.
Stone Age...
An international team of astronomers has found a possible way to map the spread and structure of the Universe, guided by the light of quasars.
This artist’s...
German researchers have discovered that the oldest known giant salamander Aviturus exsecratus was able to live on land as well as in water.
An artist’s...
An international team of scientists has used a new empirical model to explore how gold atoms bond to other atoms.
Gold crystals (Alchemist-hp, www.pse-mendelejew.de...
New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory have revealed that prodigious star formation in galaxies of the early Universe were often accompanied...
Astronomers have for the first time discovered planets orbiting Sun-like stars in a star cluster.
An artist’s impression of one of the two gas giant...
Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have released a stunning new image of the Pencil Nebula, a small part of a supernova remnant in the...
A research led by Dr Ruth Murray-Clay of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that planets can form in the center of our galaxy.
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An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of the strongest magnetic field ever found around a massive star.
This image shows the...
A research by a team of astronomers explores a discrepancy between the amount of lithium believed to be produced during the Big Bang and the amount of...
A new study by a team of European and Japanese scientists has revealed that stellar processes producing silver differ from those producing gold.
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European archaeologists using geophysical methods have mapped an ancient Roman town, which disappeared after its abandonment 1,500 years ago and now lies...
A multinational team of astronomers led by University of Texas researchers has spotted the first visible-light evidence for gravitational waves in a binary...
