A team of astronomers from Japan, led by Keio University scientist Prof. Tomoharu Oka, has detected signs of an intermediate-mass black hole in the central...
In Rosh Ha-Ayin, a city in the Center District of Israel, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have unearthed the remains of a 2,700-year-old...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back a beautiful image of one of two potential cryovolcanoes spotted on the surface of Pluto.
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A large international team of astronomers has spotted an extremely luminous supernova in a massive galaxy 3.82 billion light-years away.
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New archaeological evidence published online in the journal Nature has pushed back the accepted earliest human occupation of Sulawesi to more than 110,000...
According to a multinational team of astronomers, led by Dr Yuri Izotov from the Main Astronomical Observatory in Ukraine, so-called ‘green pea’ galaxies...
According to a study published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, dog domestication may have caused harmful genetic changes.
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Vocal muscles of songbirds work like those of human speakers and singers, according to Emory University scientist Dr Samuel Sober and his colleagues from...
Work done by Dr Jessica Cooke Bailey of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and co-authors has led to the discovery of three genes that...
NASA’s Cassini robotic orbiter has sent an amazing picture of Saturn, one of the Solar System’s gas giants.
This image, taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft,...
Recent excavations at the archaeological site of the ancient city of Knossos find that during the early Iron Age, the city was rich in imports and was...
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble and NASA’s Spitzer space telescopes, astronomers have discovered five very luminous and massive stellar systems in the star-forming...
Interbreeding of anatomically modern Homo sapiens with Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) around 40,000 years ago may have left humans with gene variants...
A team of astronomers led by Dr Julia Comerford of the University of Colorado, Boulder, has spotted a rare pair of black holes in a distant galaxy known...
The 7th period of the periodic table now has four new elements: element 113 (temporarily named as Ununtrium, or Uut), element 115 (Ununpentium, or Uup),...
According to Brown University researcher Dr Christopher Anderson, small chameleon species project their tongues further than large species, achieving projection...
A team of scientists at Colorado State University (CSU) has successfully produced a completely recyclable, biodegradable polymer.
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took these images of the dwarf planet Ceres on December 10, 2015, at an altitude of around 240 miles (385 km), which is its lowest-ever...
The discovery of hundreds of huge comets in the outer Solar System over the last 20 years means that these ancient objects pose a real hazard to our civilization,...
