Apr 3, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational team of astronomers, led Dr Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, used the Karl G. Jansky Very Large...

Apr 2, 2015 by News Staff

San Jose State University researcher Dr Jonathan Hendricks has used ultraviolet (UV) light to reveal and characterize the original shell coloration patterns...

Apr 2, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have photographed eight unusual looped structures – ephemeral ‘ghosts’ of quasars that flickered...

Apr 2, 2015 by News Staff

A group of archaeologists led by Dr Alfred Galik of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna has found a complete camel skeleton in a large refuse...

Apr 2, 2015 by News Staff

This March 18, 2015, view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Curiosity rover shows a network of two-tone mineral veins at an area called Garden...

Apr 2, 2015 by News Staff

Polar bears (Ursus maritimus), increasingly forced on shore due to sea ice loss, may be eating land-based foods, but any nutritional gains are limited...

Apr 1, 2015 by News Staff

The new date places an almost complete skeleton of Australopithecus prometheus from the Sterkfontein cave in South Africa as an older relative of famous...

Apr 1, 2015 by News Staff

According to a group of scientists led by Dr Li Ge from the CUNY’s College of Staten Island, a pair of light waves may hold the key to creating the world’s...

Apr 1, 2015 by News Staff

Male mice produce highly complex ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) to seduce females, says a team of biologists led by Duke University Medical Center. Arabian...

Apr 1, 2015 by News Staff

A team of ornithologists led by William DeLuca of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, reports the first direct evidence that the blackpoll warbler...

Apr 1, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers using data from two ESA’s space telescopes, Planck and Herschel, has identified more than 200 proto-clusters of...

Mar 31, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists from China, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom, has described a new genus and species of an ensign scale insect from mid-Cretaceous...

Mar 31, 2015 by News Staff

An international group of physicists led by Prof Vladan Vuletic of MIT has developed a novel technique that can successfully entangle 3,000 atoms using...

Mar 31, 2015 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft has captured the best images so far of Rhea, the fourteenth of Saturn’s known moons. This mosaic image from...

Mar 31, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists at the University of Sheffield, UK, has developed and tested a promising novel method that uses inexpensive samplers (cotton tampons)...

Mar 31, 2015 by News Staff

Carbon from cometary material that bombards Mercury, the first planet from the Sun, may be the reason the planet’s surface is heavily dark, says new...

Mar 30, 2015 by News Staff

In a worldwide study of the evolution of bird plumage coloration, a team of scientists led by Prof Peter Dunn of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee...

Mar 30, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a stunning new image of the spiral galaxy...

Mar 30, 2015 by News Staff

A team of astronomers, led by Dr Francesco Tombesi of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland, has observed two related phenomena...

Mar 30, 2015 by News Staff

A new study published online March 26 in the Journal of Human Evolution suggests that the genus Homo has come in different sizes since its origins over...