Archaeologist Dr Robert Mason of the Royal Ontario Museum has recently announced the discovery of mysterious rock formations near the Syrian monastery...
An international team of astronomers has announced a baffling discovery never seen before: an extraordinary amount of dust around a nearby star mysteriously...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of Herbig-Haro 110, a geyser of hot gas flowing from a newborn star.
Hubble...
An international team of archaeologists has discovered a 1,300 year-old Maya text that provides only the second known reference to the so-called “end...
Israeli archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a monumental synagogue building dating to the Late Roman period at the archaeological site of Huqoq...
Spanish archaeologists have unearthed the most ancient Neolithic bow found to date in Europe at the lake site of La Draga.
The bow discovered at the Neolithic...
A new study of lake sediment cores from Sanak Island in the western Gulf of Alaska has suggested that deglaciation there from the last Ice Age took place...
A new study has demonstrated that the creation of most minerals containing mercury is fundamentally linked to several episodes of supercontinent assembly...
A multinational team of researchers from the UK, Ethiopia, Pakistan and Italy has found that the genomes of some Ethiopian populations bear striking similarities...
Three skull fossils of Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica, one of the two subspecies of the Iberian wild goat, from between 4,000 and 7,000 years ago have shed...
The practice of cave art in Europe began up to 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, a new uranium-series dating study has revealed. The study...
Fishery biologists led by Dr Roldan Muñoz of NOAA’s Beaufort Laboratory have for the first time observed headbutting contests between males of the world’s...
Scientists have revealed new details on a 2,300-year-old beak-like weapon that an ancient warship used to ram enemy vessels in the First Punic War, the...
A new study by European scientists has suggested that intense ultraviolet radiation on Mars releases methane from organic materials which meteorites transport...
An American-Canadian team of scientists has discovered a rare landscape that appears to be very similar to one of Jupiter’s icy moons, Europa.
Europa,...
An international team of biologists has discovered a new genus of velvet spider and named it after Lou Reed, an American rock musician and songwriter.
This...
British scientists have developed a harmless, straightforward and inexpensive technique for removing gold from fossils.
Image shows a 300 million year...
