An international team of scientists has reconstructed the tree of life for all major lineages of passerines (perching birds).
The Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes...
At a site dubbed Tanis in North Dakota’s Hell Creek Formation, paleontologists have unearthed an assemblage of exquisitely-preserved fossilized organisms...
A team of researchers led by University of Massachusettes Amherst’s Dr. Trisha Andrew has developed ‘smart’ pajamas embedded with self-powered sensors...
A research team led by scientists from the University of California, Davis, has used a unique approach to sequence the genomes of the English walnut (Juglans...
A team of nuclear physicists from the Washington University, St. Louis, Michigan State University, Western Michigan University and the University of Connecticut...
Mars is dry today, but numerous ancient rivers are found across the planet’s surface and their existence is a challenge to models of planetary climate...
Dogs are able to detect an odor collected from patients during an epileptic seizure, according to a study by researchers from Medical Mutts, a service...
An international team led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München scientist Mark Scherz has described a new genus and five new species of tiny frogs...
NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope of the globular cluster Messier 2.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble...
Coffee and tea are two beverages commonly-consumed around the world. In Western societies, coffee is associated with greater arousal than tea. According...
A new study, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, provides a potential explanation for why growing up in urban settings is a risk factor for psychosis.
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Saturn’s main ring system is associated with a set of moons (Pan, Daphnis, Atlas, Pandora, and Epimetheus) that are either embedded within it, or interact...
An international team of ornithologists led by Louisiana State University researchers has discovered a cryptic new species of bulbul in the Malaysian part...
Astronomers once thought asteroids were boring, wayward space rocks that simply orbit around the Sun. But recent observations show that asteroids are anything...
ESO’s GRAVITY instrument, a second generation imaging instrument installed on the Very Large Telescope Interferometer, has made the first direct observation...
Backyard bird feeding is a popular form of human-wildlife interaction in certain regions of the northern and southern hemisphere including North America,...
Physicists from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) Collaboration announced this week the discovery of a new pentaquark particle, Pc(4312)+, decaying...
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is the first space-based, all-sky surveyor to search for alien worlds. The spacecraft was launched...
A duo of arachnologists from Brazil has discovered a new species of short-tailed whip scorpion in eastern Amazon.
Male of Surazomus saturninoae: (A) lateral,...
