The first compositional data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft about Pluto’s small, irregularly shaped moon Hydra show the moon’s surface is dominated...
Atmospherically transported dust from the Sahara Desert, the largest desert in the world, is bringing iron and other nutrients to underwater plants in...
A team of scientists from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, Arizona State University, Carnegie Institute of Washington and Johns Hopkins University Applied...
Nearly two years ago, an international team of paleontologists discovered a bizarre fossil — Atopodentatus unicus, a 10 feet (3 m) long marine reptile...
In a paper published in the journal Genetics, scientists from the University of North Dakota and the University of Minnesota present multiple lines of...
In a study published online in the journal Science, paleontologists from China and the United States report the discovery of a diverse primate fauna from...
An international group of astronomers led by Dr. Rachael Roettenbacher from the University of Michigan has used cutting-edge techniques to create direct...
According to a new research, leopards have lost as much as 75% of their historic range.
A leopard (Panthera pardus). Image credit: Joseph Lemeris.
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Three teams of scientists have taken a detailed look into the biogeochemistry, geophysics and geology of subglacial Lake Whillans, which lies 2,600 feet...
An international team of botanists has described a new subgenus of plants and named it after the notable American ornithologist James Bond.
Left: Alternanthera...
Earlier this year California Institute of Technology scientists Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown presented strong evidence for Planet Nine, a hypothesized...
Our planet could contain roughly 1 trillion microbial species, with only 0.001% now identified, says a duo of scientists at Indiana University.
This colorized...
Analyses of genome-wide data from 51 Eurasians from 7,000 – 45,000 years ago reveal two big changes in prehistoric human populations that are closely...
An international team of scientists has completely sequenced the mitochondrial genome of the Hispaniolan solenodon (a venomous, insectivorous mammal that...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of a barred spiral galaxy called NGC 4394.
This Hubble image shows NGC 4394, a barred...
Observations of a tailless comet called C/2014 S3 (PanSTARRS), made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Canada France Hawaii Telescope, show that...
A new study led by Dr. Gilles Laurent from the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, reveals slow-wave (SW) and rapid eye movement...
A team of scientists led by Dr. Todd Thiele from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has identified a circuit between two brain regions that...
Ligeia Mare, one of the largest seas on Saturn’s moon Titan, consists of pure methane and likely has a seabed covered by a sludge of organic-rich material,...
