A new study, led by Dr Demian Chapman from Stony Brook University, documents the first known cases of parthenogenesis – the ability of sexually reproducing...
According to a group of scientists headed by Dr Mark Legg of Legg Geophysical in Huntington Beach, residents of coastal Southern California could be surprised...
NASA’s Cassini space probe performed a close flyby of Saturn’s irregularly shaped moon Hyperion on 31 May 2015.
Cassini passed Hyperion on 31 May 2015...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have photographed an unusual galaxy called Messier 84.
This image of Messier 84 does not show the...
According to a group of researchers led by Prof Susumu Tonegawa from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, memories that have been lost as a result of...
A new study, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org preprint), finds a link between the presence of supermassive black holes...
Dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded) like mammals, says paleontologist Dr Michael D’Emic of Stony Brook University.
Torvosaurus gurneyi. Image credit:...
Paleontologists Dr William Korth of Rochester Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Dr Joshua Samuels of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument have...
A new genomic analysis of people currently living in Egypt and Ethiopia suggests that Eurasians originated when early Africans moved north – through...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed a collision between two knots of ejected matter in the extragalactic jet blasting out...
According to a team of scientists led by Dr Joseph Shea of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Kathmandu, Nepal, if greenhouse-gas...
NASA engineers have begun testing a car-sized Mars lander, dubbed InSight, scheduled to launch in 2016.
This artist’s rendition shows the InSight Mars...
Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists excavating at the archaeological site of the Bet Ha-‘Emeq have unearthed a fragment of an Early Bronze Age...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has beamed back its best-yet images of the dwarf planet Pluto and Charon, Pluto’s largest moon.
This image, taken May...
Wounds identified on a 430,000-year-old hominin skull from the archaeological site of Sima de los Huesos in northern Spain may indicate one of the first...
A multinational group of anthropologists has described a new human ancestor species that lived in what is now the Afar region of Ethiopia about 3.3 –...
Astronomers using the Gemini Planet Imager at the Gemini South telescope in Chile have identified a disc-shaped bright ring of dust around a nearby young...
NASA has announced the selection of science instruments for the Europa Clipper, a future mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa.
Based on new evidence from...
Astronomers using the FOcal Reducer and low dispersion Spectrograph (FORS) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have released a new image of a spectacular...
An unusual virus called Sulfolobus islandicus Rod-shaped Virus 2 (SIRV2 for short) could be a new weapon in the fight against pathogens, says an international...
