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...
Cambridge researchers have raised questions about the theory that Neanderthals and modern humans at some point interbred. Their findings show that common...
A new study by Tel Aviv University scientists shows that the transition from hunting to agricultural society during the Neolithic age parallels development...
A planetary geologist from the University of California in Los Angeles has discovered the first strong evidence that the geological phenomenon known as...
Astronomers have constructed the largest-ever 3D map of massive galaxies and distant black holes, which will help better explain the mysterious ‘dark...
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...
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...
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...
Theoretical physicists at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, are on the track of an exotic, subatomic particle, whose existence was first predicted...
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...
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...
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...
In a new study, geologists at the University of Texas at Austin have examined large-scale polygons on Mars and compared them to similar features on Earth’s...
A multinational team of researchers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope has discovered that almost three quarters of high-mass stars have close companions,...
Astronomers have detected the first exoplanetary system with regularly aligned orbits similar to those in our Solar System.
In this artist interpretation,...
An international team of astrophysicists has developed a new model that shows how an elusive type of black hole can be formed in the gas surrounding their...
Japanese astronomers using two radio telescopes have produced a map of carbon monoxide distribution in the central region of our Galaxy. While mapping...
Astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of Earth.
This artist’s concept shows...
