Aug 25, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of theoretical physicists at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University has proposed that the start of the Universe should be modeled not as...

Aug 24, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An innovative computational approach applied by an international team of linguists sheds new light on the origins of Indo-European languages. Map shows...

Aug 23, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

University of Toronto graduate student Martin Smith has for the first time reconstructed mouthparts of two mollusk-like animals Odontogriphus and Wiwaxia...

Aug 22, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers at the University of California have found outflowing galactic winds with velocities up to 2,500 km per second that they detected in 29 massive...

Aug 21, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. This is a Hubble...

Aug 20, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of European astrophysicists led by Dr Vardan Adibekyan of the Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, has found that metals like...

Aug 16, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A large international team of over 80 astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the South Pole Telescope, and eight other world-class observatories,...

Aug 15, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A new study led by Zurich University researchers sheds light on the origin of a puzzling skull bone, known as the interparietal, in humans and all other...

Aug 14, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Cambridge researchers have raised questions about the theory that Neanderthals and modern humans at some point interbred. Their findings show that common...

Aug 14, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A new study by Tel Aviv University scientists shows that the transition from hunting to agricultural society during the Neolithic age parallels development...

Aug 10, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A planetary geologist from the University of California in Los Angeles has discovered the first strong evidence that the geological phenomenon known as...

Aug 9, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have constructed the largest-ever 3D map of massive galaxies and distant black holes, which will help better explain the mysterious ‘dark...

Aug 9, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A study led by the University of Zürich and the ETH Zürich has revealed the presence of large amounts of invisible ‘dark matter’ near the Solar System. The...

Aug 8, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to make the first detection of X-rays from the remains of a supernova...

Aug 8, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of astronomers at the University of Bonn in Germany has suggested that the four ultramassive stars, discovered two years ago and located in the...

Aug 6, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity has successfully landed in the Gale Crater on Mars. The one-ton rover touched down onto the Red Planet early Monday to...

Aug 2, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Theoretical physicists at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, are on the track of an exotic, subatomic particle, whose existence was first predicted...

Aug 1, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers operating ESO’s Very Large Telescope has released a new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1187. This image shows the...

Aug 1, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of German scientists has analyzed the structure of shark teeth and human teeth. The results of their research are surprising: although the surface...

Jul 31, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of scientists has substantially increased the age at which we can trace the emergence of modern culture, all thanks to the San people...