A group of scientists led by Dr Peng-fei Fan of the Dali University’s Institute of Eastern-Himalaya Biodiversity Research in Yunnan has described a new...
Chins of anatomically modern humans don’t come from mechanical forces such as chewing, but instead result from an evolutionary adaptation involving face...
According to a team of scientists headed by Dr Jill Pruetz of Iowa State University, female West African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes ssp. verus) hunt...
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the MUSE instrument on ESO’s VLT in Chile, an international group of scientists led by Dr Richard Massey...
The Ralph color imager on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured a low-resolution color image of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.
This image...
Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Polish Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory...
Astronomers led by Roger Griffith of the Pennsylvania State University say they have found no evidence of so-called Type III Kardashev super-civilizations...
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have found a large number of Egyptian artifacts and pottery vessels dating back to the Late...
Planetary researchers studying data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have found the solution to the mystery of why Saturn seethes with massive storms every...
Complementary data collected by the Rosetta Plasma Consortium fluxgate magnetometer (RPC-MAG) on board ESA’s Rosetta orbiter, and by the Rosetta Lander...
A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience explains why the sand dunes of Titan run in parallel lines from the west to the east.
The moons...
NASA scientists using the framing camera aboard the Dawn spacecraft have created the first color map of the dwarf planet Ceres.
This color map of Ceres...
An international team of scientists, led by Dr Javier Martin-Torres of the Spanish Research Council in Spain and the Lulea University of Technology in...
Scientists led by Dr Abram Clark of Duke University and Yale University developed a novel technique which enabled them to simulate accurately high-speed...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of a distant galaxy called NGC 2865.
This image shows the shell...
Type Ia supernovae, which are bright beacons used as distance markers both for studying the expansion rate of the Universe, and for measuring cosmological...
A team of paleontologists led by Dr Adam Behlke of Yale University says that very large marine reptiles called mosasaurs did not lay eggs on beaches, and...
According to a new study published in the journal Current Biology, young sea turtles don’t just passively drift in ocean currents during a period known...
