A feathered dinosaur from North and South Dakota, a species of pufferfish from Japan, a cartwheeling spider from Morocco, a ‘walking stick’ from Vietnam,...
A group of astronomers from the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) has witnessed a supernova smashing into a nearby white dwarf, shocking it,...
New research reported in the Journal of Experimental Biology demonstrates that the skin of the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) possesses...
A group of researchers headed by Dr Jacob Adams of North Carolina State University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has created a...
A team of scientists at Sichuan University in China has developed the first light-emitting, transparent and flexible paper out of environmentally friendly...
A team of scientists led by Dr Sonia Harmand of Stony Brook University has unearthed the earliest tools ever found – dated at 3.3 million years old.
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Giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) actually harbor carnivore-like gut microbiota predominated by bacteria such as Escherichia/Shigella and Streptococcus,...
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have managed to obtain the most detailed image ever taken of the Medusa Nebula.
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According to a new study published online in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, the most recent common ancestor of all snakes was a nocturnal, stealth-hunting...
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has returned stunning new images of Saturn and its two moons, Janus and Mimas.
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A new study of the bones of hundreds of humans who lived during the past 33,000 years in Europe finds the rise of agriculture and a corresponding fall...
A group of scientists co-led by University of Pittsburgh biologists Dr Nathan Morehouse and Dr Daniel Zurek has found that spiders in the American genus...
Rosetta mission scientists have discovered an unusual geological formation in the Aker region on the large lobe of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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Astronomers using the Dragonfly Telephoto Array and the 10m telescope at the W.M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi, have discovered 47 so-called...
According to marine biologists led by Dr Kimberly Prather from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a factor that determines the properties of clouds...
A chemical signature recorded on otoliths (ear bones) of Chinook salmon could tell scientists where the fish lived, says a new study published in the journal...
According to a team of scientists led by Dr Amiyaal Ilany of the University of Pennsylvania, spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) prefer to have friendship...
Astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured an image of a titanic...
According to new research published online today in the journal Science, sex equality in residential decision-making explains the unique social structure...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured snapshots of fledging white dwarfs beginning their slow-paced, 40-million-year migration...
