Chilesaurus diegosuarezi, a peculiar dinosaur that roamed the Earth some 145 million years ago and looked like a raptor but was in fact a plant-eater,...
Physicists from the ATLAS experiment, one of the four major experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, have found the first direct...
A team of physicists at the University of Bonn in Germany has developed a technique to create optical ‘wells’ for a photonic Bose-Einstein condensate.
The...
A team of geoscientists from the University of Edinburgh, UK, has discovered an extensive volcanic range beneath West Antarctica’s massive ice sheet.
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the dwarf spiral galaxy IC 1727.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the...
New excavations of a cave site in western Sumatra called Lida Ajer indicate modern humans reached Southeast Asia between 73,000 to 63,000 years ago —...
A beautifully carved head and upper torso of a female figure have been found within a monumental gate complex near the upper citadel of Kunulua, the capital...
An international team of planetary researchers from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and Jilin University, China, has used computer simulations to attempt...
A well-preserved 106-year-old fruit cake has been found in a hut on Cape Adare, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica.
The Huntley and Palmer’s fruit cake...
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal Observatory in Chile has snapped an amazing new photo of NGC 7098, a spiral galaxy with numerous sets of...
A multinational group of astronomers has detected four possible alien worlds circling tau Ceti, which is less than 12 light-years from our Solar System.
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A petroglyph on the south face of Piedra del Sol, a free-standing rock in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon, may depict the solar corona observed during the...
According to new research published in the journal NeuroReport, a month before they are born, fetuses can distinguish between someone speaking to them...
Paleontologists have announced the discovery of two new troodontid dinosaur species, Latenivenatrix mcmasterae and Stenonychosaurus inequalis, based on...
Plants and the meat of mammoths, red deer and horses were a major part of the diet of anatomically modern humans who lived in what is now Crimea, Ukraine,...
A trio of astronomers at the University of California, Irvine, claims that stellar-remnant black holes, which result from the collapse of massive stars...
