A team of physicists at ETH Zürich in Switzerland has produced the shortest-ever laser pulses: just 43 attoseconds (an attosecond is an incomprehensible...
A bone-derived hormone called osteocalcin is known to affect how we metabolize sugar and fat. In a new study, Professor Mathieu Ferron of the Université...
According to NASA, the agency’s next Mars rover will have more cameras than any rover before it: a grand total of 23, to create sweeping panoramas, reveal...
A team of Chinese scientists has successfully sequenced and analyzed the genome of Rangifer tarandus (reindeer), the only fully domesticated species in...
Conditions favorable for mergers of massive black holes exist in the outer gas disks of massive spiral galaxies, according to a study led by Rochester...
Dr. Daniel Bayliss, an astronomer at the University of Warwick, and colleagues has discovered a giant gaseous planet orbiting a small M-dwarf star 600...
In a new study, a team of biologists at the University of Oxford shows how evolutionary theory can be used to make predictions about aliens. According...
Analysis of data from ESA’s Rosetta mission continues to yield insights into the nature of cometary ice and organics.
Artist’s impression of a comet....
A paper published in the Journal of Archaeological Science presents the first results of the dating of indigenous pre-Columbian cave art in the Caribbean,...
A team of scientists at North Carolina State University has demonstrated that a gallium-based liquid metal alloy forms snowflake-like fractal patterns...
Ceres’ crust, with its mixture of ice, salts and hydrated materials, represents most of the dwarf planet’s ancient ocean, according to two new studies...
A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows Abell 665, one of the richest galaxy clusters known.
This Hubble image shows the gigantic galaxy...
A multinational consortium of scientists has produced the first high-quality genomic sequence for the river buffalo (Bubalus bubalis bubalis), an important...
For the first time, astronomers think they’ve spotted an asteroid (or perhaps a comet) in the Solar System that came from interstellar space.
A/2017...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found a blistering hot-Jupiter exoplanet where it ‘snows’ titanium dioxide, the active ingredient in sunscreen....
