A group of paleontologists has described a new genus and species of Phorusrhacidae that lived in what is now Argentina during the Pliocene epoch, around...
Researchers led by Dr Esther Clarke of the Durham University and the University of St Andrews, UK, have revealed that lar gibbons (Hylobates lar) produce...
A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed an ultrasensitive magnetic-field detector that could lead to smaller devices...
A team of genetic scientists, co-led by Dr Chris Tyler-Smith of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Dr Aylwyn Scally of the University of Cambridge,...
Thawing permafrost in the Artic and sub-Arctic regions will likely produce a gradual and prolonged release of large quantities of greenhouse gases spanning...
The evidence comes from paleontologists Dr David Hone of Queen Mary University of London and Dr Darren Tanke of the Royal Tyrrell Museum who analyzed a...
Scientists at the University of Maryland believe an Earth-Theia collision far more violent than previously thought could explain how the Earth’s Moon...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected the presence of complex carbon-based molecules – methyl cyanide...
A team of planetary scientists led by Dr Nanna Bjørnholt Karlsson from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, has calculated the total volume of water...
According to NASA chief scientist Dr Ellen Stofan, in the next twenty years, scientists may very well finally answer whether we are alone in the Solar...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have captured stunning images of a gravitationally lensed galaxy called HATLAS...
This newly released Hubble image shows Messier 22, the brightest globular cluster visible from the northern hemisphere.
This is a close-up of the central...
A new study, led by Dr Laura Crotty Alexander of the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System and the University of California San Diego, shows that...
In a new study reported in the journal Science, Princeton University physicists tested the frustrated magnets – so-named because they should be magnetic...
Some scientists have argued for decades that black holes are the ultimate vaults, entities that suck in information and then evaporate without leaving...
A team of amateur speleologists has found a small cache of rare coins, silver and bronze artifacts in a remote stalactite cave in northern Israel.
The...
The critically endangered swift parrot (Lathamus discolor) could become extinct within less than two decades, says a new study published online in the...
A mass extinction some 201 million years ago may have been triggered by changes in the biochemical balance of Panthalassa (also known as the Panthalassic...
