A team of scientists at Umeå University in Sweden has discovered a special group of muscle fibers in the soft palate of the human mouth.
Upper respiratory...
Enormous standing stones at Stonehenge are of sarsen, a local sandstone, but the smaller ones, known as bluestones, came from two prehistoric quarries...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array have discovered a cluster of monstrous young galaxies, called submillimeter galaxies,...
Israeli archaeologists digging in the Ophel Archaeological Park, near the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, have discovered...
A team of material scientists in the United States has discovered a novel allotrope of carbon, Q-carbon.
Nucleation of microdiamond from nanodiamond filaments...
A new image acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, shows a run out of the Aurorae Chaos region.
This...
Animations that compress more than two decades of satellite images into one second reveal the complex behavior and flow of glaciers in the Karakoram mountain...
A multinational team of scientists led by Tufts University biologists has succeeded in inducing a species of planarian, Girardia dorotocephala, to grow...
A group of entomologists led by Dr Christopher Reid of the University of Sydney has discovered complex bridges constructed by Eciton army ants with their...
On approach to the Pluto system in July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured images of the dwarf planet and its biggest moon, Charon, rotating...
According to new research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the Andes have been a mountain chain for much longer than previously thought.
Torres...
An international group of researchers has sequenced the genomes of Late Upper Paleolithic (13,300 years old) and Mesolithic (9,700 years old) males from...
Astronomers using data from ESA’s Hipparcos space astrometry mission have produced a 3D visualization of all of O and B type stars within 1,630 light...
A new study in the journal Science suggests that water-soaked grains of dust present early in the Solar System are the source of Earth’s water.
Early...
Bee products were exploited continuously at least from the seventh millennium BC, according to a multinational team of scientists led by University of...
An international team of astronomers has discovered the oldest stars ever seen, dating from before the Milky Way Galaxy formed, when the Universe was just...
A team of astronomers has discovered a new rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting a star approximately 39 light-years away.
In this artist’s conception...
The sight of a massive asteroid being ripped apart by a white dwarf called SDSS J122859.93+104032.9 (J1228+1040 for short) and forming a debris disk has...
According to a new study published in the AAPS Journal, medication degradation in space does not differ from what is seen on the planet.
The International...
