Astronomers using ESO’s VISTA infrared survey telescope have discovered a dozen ancient stars, of a type known as RR Lyrae, in the vicinity of the center...
Exposure to highly energetic charged particles can lead to a range of potential central nervous system complications that can occur during and persist...
A study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences challenges the popular idea that we should drink 8 glasses of water...
A global-scale dust storm could envelop the Red Planet within the next few months, according to planetary researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a spiral galaxy known as NGC 278.
This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 278, which lies in the northern...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected blobs of plasma being ejected near a dying red giant star called V Hydrae.
This image...
Pie charts show the proportion of chromosomes within different populations worldwide that carry a non-working copy of the FLG gene, a primary risk factor...
A fossilized biting midge found in India preserved in amber dates back some 54 million years, says an international team of paleontologists.
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A team of scientists headed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researcher Prof. Ali Javey has used carbon nanotubes and a compound called molybdenum...
An international team of researchers from the United States and Germany today reports having sequenced and annotated the genome of the Philippine tarsier....
A group of researchers in the United Kingdom has identified a set of gene families whose sizes are positively associated with an expanded neocortex —...
String pulling is a popular problem-solving task for investigating cognitive abilities in apes and birds, but has never been tested in insects. Now, buff-tailed...
Planets form from epic collisions between asteroids and even bigger bodies, called protoplanets. Sometimes the colliding bodies are ground to dust, and...
According to a team of scientists at the University of Rochester, a rare mutation in a flu-encoded protein, called Non-Structural protein 1 (NS1), renders...
This detailed view of the reflection nebula Messier 78 was taken with the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at ESO’s Paranal...
An international team of researchers led by Lund University archaeologists has virtually reconstructed a large house of the Pompeian banker Lucius Caecilius...
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft, sent to Mars to explore its upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the...
A research team led by McMaster University scientist Matthew Miller has taken one step closer to developing an effective, ‘one-punch’ flu vaccine.
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A new technique devised by a team of researchers at the University of Washington leverages the signals already generated by fingerprint sensors on smartphones...
