Jan 1, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the galaxy UGC 6093. This image, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, shows the megamaser...

Dec 31, 2017 by News Staff

Giant storms in Saturn’s northern hemisphere can disturb atmospheric patterns at the ringed giant’s equator, according to new research published in...

Dec 30, 2017 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, women can process oxygen more quickly than men when they...

Dec 29, 2017 by News Staff

New findings from a team of astronomers at the University of California, San Diego, and elsewhere increase understanding of how powerful winds generated...

Dec 29, 2017 by News Staff

The upcoming encounter of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft with 2014 MU69 will be an important and rare opportunity for close-up study of a Kuiper Belt...

Dec 29, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of scientists led by ESO astronomer Claudia Paladini has directly observed granules — patterns of convection currents in the...

Dec 28, 2017 by News Staff

Dr. Philip Riris from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London and colleagues have mapped a series of rock engravings (petroglyphs), some...

Dec 28, 2017 by News Staff

For people with mild cognitive impairment, don’t be surprised if your health care provider prescribes exercise rather than medication. According to a...

Dec 28, 2017 by News Staff

ESO’s Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research (SPHERE) instrument, installed on the Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in...

Dec 28, 2017 by News Staff

Vasopressin, also called antidiuretic hormone, is released from the brain, and known to work in the kidney, suppressing a process called diuresis. According...

Dec 27, 2017 by News Staff

Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologists digging at the site of Beth Shemesh have discovered the spectacular remains of a 1,500-year-old monastery...

Dec 27, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of ornithologists has revealed that a rare Amazonian bird called the golden-crowned manakin (Lepidothrix vilasboasi) — first...

Dec 27, 2017 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the University of Münster, Germany, have unearthed a large collection of 1,800-year-old clay seals, or bullae, at the ancient city...

Dec 27, 2017 by News Staff

A specific group of amino acids called branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) is elevated in the blood of obese, insulin-resistant humans and rodents. A new...

Dec 26, 2017 by News Staff

According to a systematic review of recent cohort studies and randomized controlled trials, published in the journal Obesity Facts, consumption of sugar-sweetened...

Dec 26, 2017 by News Staff

A sequence of radar images of the near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon was obtained in December 2017 by astronomers using the NASA-funded planetary radar...

Dec 26, 2017 by News Staff

A team of astronomers from the University of Chicago and Clemson University has laid out a theory for how our Solar System could have formed in the dense...

Dec 26, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of marine biologists has described a new species of intertidal spider from tropical Queensland, Australia, and named it after the...

Dec 26, 2017 by News Staff

Researchers at the University of Tasmania, Australia, have conducted trials to determine the efficacy of anthocyanins — bioactive compounds found...

Dec 25, 2017 by News Staff

Habelia optata, a close relative of the ancestor of modern-day spiders, scorpions and horseshoe crabs, evolved an extremely complex head to hunt and eat...