Oct 18, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have spotted a gigantic galaxy proto-supercluster in the early Universe, just 2.3 billion years after the...

Oct 17, 2018 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by University of California, Riverside’s Professor Gordon Love has found the oldest evidence yet of animal life, dating back...

Oct 17, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of over 100 scientists from 16 institutions has sequenced the genome of the wild sugarcane (Saccharum spontaneum). The results appear...

Oct 17, 2018 by News Staff

A distant relative to GW170817, the first source identified to emit gravitational waves and light, has been discovered. Reported in the journal Nature...

Oct 17, 2018 by News Staff

Physicists from the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) Collaboration at CERN have gained new insights into the properties of the quark-gluon plasma,...

Oct 16, 2018 by News Staff

A team of scientists at the University of Bristol, UK, has developed a synthetic prototissue that is capable of synchronized beating. The team’s work,...

Oct 16, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a 2-million-year-old planetary system containing at least four...

Oct 16, 2018 by News Staff

Sauropods are a group of plant-eating dinosaurs which exceeded all other terrestrial vertebrates in body size. A new, in-depth anatomical description of...

Oct 16, 2018 by News Staff

A team of researchers in China has developed drug-delivering contact lenses that could self-report the drug release process by color change. The team’s...

Oct 15, 2018 by News Staff

For the first time, a new computer simulation that incorporates the physical effects of Einstein’s general theory of relativity shows that gas in supermassive...

Oct 15, 2018 by News Staff

Why share when access to benefits is uncertain is crucial to our understanding of the evolution of cooperation in human societies. In a study published...

Oct 15, 2018 by News Staff

A stunning new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the effects of gravitational lensing caused by SDSS J0952+3434, a very massive group...

Oct 15, 2018 by News Staff

Multiple sclerosis is an immune-mediated autoimmune disease of the central nervous system that develops in genetically susceptible individuals and requires...

Oct 12, 2018 by News Staff

A team of astronomers led by Caltech’s Kishalay De has discovered the first recorded ‘ultra-stripped’ supernova — a faint type of supernova...

Oct 12, 2018 by News Staff

The Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT), a lander carried by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, successfully completed its historic exploration of the...

Oct 12, 2018 by News Staff

A new study, published in the journal Icarus, reveals Ganymede — the largest and most massive moon of Jupiter and in the Solar System — appears...

Oct 12, 2018 by News Staff

A team of neuroscientists at the University of Southern California Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute has produced the most detailed...

Oct 11, 2018 by News Staff

Ancient inhabitants of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) survived periods of drought due to their utilization of brackish groundwater discharge that surfaces buoyantly...

Oct 11, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) at the Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory have nearly doubled the known...

Oct 11, 2018 by News Staff

Over our species history, humans have typically lived in small groups of under a hundred individuals. But a new study, published in the journal Royal Society...