On April 17, 2016, an active region on the Sun released an M6.7 class solar flare, captured here by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
Solar flares...
A team of scientists at the University of Montreal, Canada, has created a DNA-based nanothermometer that is 20,000 times smaller than a human hair.
Scientists...
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a tiny, dark moon orbiting the dwarf planet Makemake, one of several dwarf planets...
Using computational modeling and neutron scattering, physicists have discovered a novel state of water molecule.
Physicists discovered that water in the...
Marine scientists have found that biofluorescent catsharks, such as the swell shark from the eastern Pacific and the chain catshark from the western Atlantic,...
A new reef system has been found at the mouth of the Amazon River by an international group of researchers from Brazil and the United States.
The Amazon...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of the star cluster NGC 339.
This Hubble image shows the massive star cluster NGC 339....
Ecological changes following the dinosaur-ravaging Chicxulub impact 65 million years ago may have been more detrimental to meat-eating bird-like dinosaurs,...
An international team of researchers from Uppsala University and Princeton University has identified a specific gene that within a year helped spur a permanent...
A rare specimen of the titanosaur Rapetosaurus krausei from the Cretaceous of Madagascar sheds light on early life in the smallest stage of one of the...
The first evidence that humans in the Swiss Alps made cheese in the 1st millennium BC is described in research by an international team of archeologists,...
Fossils of a 13-million-year-old extinct gavialoid crocodilian from the Peruvian Amazon suggest that South American and Indian gavialoids evolved separately...
A novel technology being developed by a team of researchers at Binghamton University has delivered outstanding results over the ability to identify persons...
New images captured by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft from a distance of 240 miles (385 km) show two prominent craters on the surface of Ceres: Oxo and Haulani.
This...
A new tool called the Geographic Population Structure (GPS), which converts DNA data into its ancestral coordinates, has pinpointed origin of Yiddish speakers,...
