ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured the sharpest image ever of the Tarantula Nebula and its rich surroundings.
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Ground-dwelling birds survived while their close, tree-dwelling relatives went extinct during the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, caused by the impact...
Iron-rich rocks near ancient lake sites on Mars are the most promising and best understood astropaleontological targets, according to new research led...
A platinum-group chemical element called ruthenium (Ru) is the fourth single element to have unique ferromagnetic properties at room temperature.
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An international research team led by scientists at University College Cork, Linyi University, and China’s Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology...
Although using flashy colors as camouflage may seem counterintuitive, iridescence obstructs the bumblebee’s ability to identify shape, according to a...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found a giant arc of light behind SDSS J1156+1911, a cluster of hundreds of galaxies located...
Planetary researchers working with data from NASA’s New Horizons and ESA’s Rosetta missions have developed a new theory for the formation of the dwarf...
Individuals with affective problems (depression and anxiety) are at an increased risk of a greater decline in cognitive state, according to a review of...
NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) spacecraft is currently cruising to Mars. On May 22, 2018,...
Physicists from the HAL QCD Collaboration predict the existence of a new type of dibaryon, a particle that contains six quarks instead of the usual three....
A team of paleontologists has discovered and described the nearly complete fossilized skull of a previously unknown mammal relative that lived about 130...
57-milion-year-old leaf fossils from eastern India suggest that the worldwide-distributed morning glory family (Convolvulaceae), which includes sweet potatoes...
A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed an injectable nanoparticle formulation of the inactivated polio...
Bonobos (Pan paniscus) and other apes, such as common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and gorillas (Gorilla sp.), have muscles long-believed to be only...
A rare species of orangutan, a majestic tree, a beetle that looks like part of an ant, the world’s deepest-living fish, and the fossil of a marsupial...
A team of neuroscientists from the University of California, San Francisco, and Loma Linda University has identified the first potential treatment for...
In a research article published in the journal Heart, a team of researchers from China and the UK reports that a moderate level of egg consumption (up...
The new map, created by astronomers from Yale University and elsewhere, provides unprecedented detail of the structure of the Orion A molecular cloud,...
An international team of researchers has developed a new biodegradable material which is stronger than steel and even than dragline spider silk. The results...
