An international team of researchers led by University of California, Davis, geneticists has publicly released the first public genome sequence of Arabica...
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission has identified two gas-enshrouded supermassive black holes, located at the centers of nearby...
A process using human stem cells can generate heart cells belonging to the external layer, the epicardium, according to an international team of scientists...
Humans first arrived in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to an analysis of ancient animal bones found in northern...
This colorful view of Milky Way was captured when the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope pointed its Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) towards the constellation...
At the 229th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society on Jan. 5, 2017, astronomers from the SDSS/APOGEE (Sloan Digital Sky Survey/Apache Point Observatory...
Archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology working at Cherry Hinton in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, have uncovered a wealth of Roman and Anglo-Saxon...
Paleontologists have finally determined what hyoliths — a group of extinct marine creatures — actually are.
Reconstruction of the hyolith Haplophrentis...
Milky Way’s 11 most distant stars are located roughly 300,000 light-years away from us. According to a team of astronomers at Harvard University, five...
In the Jan. 10 issue of the journal Stem Cell Reports, Dr. Michiko Mandai and colleagues at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan report...
A new species of ground beetle has been identified by Cornell University Professor James Liebherr.
Holotype specimen of Bryanites graeffii. Image credit:...
Astronomers and geoscientists from the United States and Brazil have joined forces to study the mix of major rock-building elements in exoplanet-hosting...
According to an international team of scientists from New Zealand and Australia, up to 76% of the world’s population is overfat. This amounts to an astonishing...
According to new research published in the journal Current Biology, a key area of the hummingbird brain processes motion in a unique, unexpected way.
The...
A novel method of stimulating the renewal of living stem cells in tooth pulp using an Alzheimer’s drug called Tideglusib has been discovered by scientists...
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed an agreement with the Breakthrough Initiatives to adapt ESO’s Very Large Telescope instrumentation...
An international team of biologists led by Washington State University Professor Haluk Beyenal has discovered a new type of cooperative photosynthesis...
This image composite combines the best Earth image with the best Moon image from four sets of images acquired on November 20, 2016, by the High Resolution...
