A team of researchers from the Universities of Sussex and Bristol, UK, has invented the first metamaterial that easily bends, shapes and focuses sound...
As Cassini continues its ring-grazing orbits, diving just past the outside of Saturn’s F ring, the outermost discrete ring of the planet, it is tracking...
Evidence of planetary debris surrounding a white dwarf and its substellar companion has been found by a University College London-led international team...
According to a study led by University of Exeter researcher Daniel Cox, people living in neighborhoods with more birds, shrubs and trees are less likely...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has delivered a stunning snapshot of the strange giant galaxy UGC 12591.
This image, taken with the Wide Field Camera...
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has produced this beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4981.
This VLT image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4981. The...
This new image of the remnant of core-collapse Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A) was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in January 2017.
This Hubble...
ESA’s XMM-Newton mission has spotted a pulsar — a rapidly rotating, magnetized neutron star that sweeps regular pulses of radiation in two symmetrical...
According to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers, fructose is converted in the human brain from glucose. The finding, published in the journal...
According to an international research team led by University College London Professor Chronis Tzedakis, a simple rule can accurately predict when Earth’s...
A team of researchers at the College of Science at George Mason University has detected 48 antimicrobial peptides in the blood plasma of Komodo dragons...
NASA’s Fermi telescope has detected a strong gamma-ray signal coming from the core of the Andromeda galaxy (also known as Messier 31) that could indicate...
Women tend to react with stronger responses to immune challenges while pregnant with girls than with boys, a new study published in the journal Brain,...
A University of Cambridge-led team of astronomers, using chemical elements as a proxy for stellar DNA, has assembled an evolutionary family tree of stars...
Researchers have found for the first time that dopamine, a vital neurotransmitter in the brain, is involved in human bonding. The results appear in the...
Vitamin B3, also known as niacin and nicotinic acid, prevents eye degeneration in glaucoma-prone mice, according to a study published in the Feb. 17 issue...
This image shows the first measurements of the so-called Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect (SZE) from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.
Astronomers...
