A multinational group of paleontologists has dated a species of fossil monkey, the Hispaniola monkey (Antillothrix bernensis), to over one million years...
Adult cats (Felis silvestris catus) are typically quite autonomous, even in their social relationships, and not necessarily dependent on others to provide...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the famous galaxy Messier 63, also known as the Sunflower Galaxy.
This image shows...
A team of physicists at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, has constructed and experimentally demonstrated a magnetic wormhole – an object...
Physicists from the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have produced a quark-gluon plasma – a state of matter...
According to a paper that will be published in the November issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, ancient Egyptians bred raptors as offerings...
In April 2015, a TV crew was filming at the Royal Burgers Zoo in the Netherlands. It was the intention to film chimps in the enclosure from close-by and...
Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have devised a new way to get into orbit and land on Solar System’s small bodies.
Comet Hitchhiker...
Billy Ó Foghlú, a Ph.D. student at the Australian National University’s College of Asia-Pacific, has created a replica of an Iron-Age artifact to revive...
This flyby animation was compiled by Dr Stuart Robbins, a member of the New Horizons team and a research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute...
A new carbon allotrope, phagraphene (standing for penta-hexa-hepta-graphene), has been discovered by an international team of physicists. It consists of...
A team of Australian and New Zealand archaeologists has unearthed the oldest known pottery from Papua New Guinea at the remote highlands site of Wañelek...
According to a new study published today in Nature, there are 3,041 billion trees on our planet, but over 15 billion trees are cut down each year, and...
Paleontologists have determined that Eunotosaurus africanus – a 260 million year old fossil reptile from the Karoo Basin of South Africa and a relative...
In a paper published online in Nature Communications, scientists detail how colonial siphonophores – gelatinous planktonic organisms related to jellyfish,...
The fossil of a freshwater river dolphin that lived 5.8 – 6.1 million years ago has been found in Panama.
Life reconstruction of Isthminia panamensis,...
Using the 2.2-m MPG/ESO telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, astronomers have captured an image of part of the gigantic nebula Gum 56.
This...
Nearly 60% of all seabird species, including albatrosses, shearwaters and penguins, have plastic in their gut, according to a new study published in the...
The evolution of the human body’s size and shape has gone through four stages, says an international group of anthropologists from the United States,...
