Mar 10, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have captured the most detailed image yet of the merging cluster Abell 2256. This VLA radio...

Mar 10, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational team of scientists headed by Dr Adrienne Jochum from the University of Bern, Switzerland, has described two new species of the genus Zospeum...

Mar 10, 2015 by News Staff

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences debunks the widely-held conservative notion that early human herders, moving...

Mar 10, 2015 by News Staff

Using the data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), astronomers have found nine new ultra-faint Milky Way satellites. Based on the morphological properties,...

Mar 9, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new image of the M81 group post-starburst galaxy UGC 8201. This image shows...

Mar 9, 2015 by News Staff

A group of archaeologists from the University of Oregon and the Bureau of Land Management has found an at least 15,800-year-old orange agate tool at a...

Mar 9, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study reported in the journal European Journal of Human Genetics, millions of modern Asian men are descended from eleven dynastic leaders,...

Mar 9, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers Dr Guillem Anglada-Escudé from the Queen Mary University of London and Dr Mikko Tuomi from the University of Hertfordshire have dismissed...

Mar 9, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by Dr Julio César Dalponte of the Institute for the Conservation of Neotropical Carnivores in Atibaia has described a new species...

Mar 7, 2015 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists from the French-Egyptian Centre for the Study of Karnak Temples has made a new discovery near the temple of Ptah at Karnak, Luxor,...

Mar 6, 2015 by News Staff

After a seven-year cruise, and a one-year successful mission at the giant asteroid 4 Vesta, NASA’s Dawn space probe today successfully entered the orbit...

Mar 6, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational team of astronomers led by Dr Stephan Geier from the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany, has determined that a hypervelocity...

Mar 6, 2015 by News Staff

The Myanmar Jerdon’s babbler (Chrysomma altirostre altirostre), last seen in Myanmar more than 70 years ago, has been discovered still living in the...

Mar 6, 2015 by News Staff

Due to the gravitational lensing technique, a team of astronomers led by Dr Patrick Kelly from the University of California, Berkeley, has observed four...

Mar 6, 2015 by News Staff

An ancient ocean on the Red Planet covered a greater portion of the surface than the Atlantic Ocean does on our planet and held more water than Arctic...

Mar 5, 2015 by News Staff

Two bottles of beer from an about 170 year old shipwreck near the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea have been analyzed by a team of scientists from Finland...

Mar 5, 2015 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Current Biology reveals that, unlike other jumping insects, wingless baby mantises don’t spin out of control when...

Mar 5, 2015 by News Staff

According to a team of astronomers headed by Dr Lewis Roberts from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, an extrasolar gas giant called 30 Arietis...

Mar 5, 2015 by News Staff

In two papers published in the journal Science, an international team of anthropologists reported the discovery of a partial hominin jaw with teeth from...

Mar 5, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of entomologists led by Dr Niklas Wahlberg from the University of Turku in Finland has described an enigmatic new species of moth...