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...
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...
The new date places an almost complete skeleton of Australopithecus prometheus from the Sterkfontein cave in South Africa as an older relative of famous...
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...
Male mice produce highly complex ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) to seduce females, says a team of biologists led by Duke University Medical Center.
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A team of ornithologists led by William DeLuca of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, reports the first direct evidence that the blackpoll warbler...
An international team of astronomers using data from two ESA’s space telescopes, Planck and Herschel, has identified more than 200 proto-clusters of...
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...
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...
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...
A team of scientists at the University of Sheffield, UK, has developed and tested a promising novel method that uses inexpensive samplers (cotton tampons)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
According to astrophysicists Dr Scott Kenyon of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Dr Ben Bromley of the University of Utah, terrestrial, Earth-like...
A group of astronomers headed by Dr Andreas Eckart from the University of Cologne, Germany, has made the best observations so far of a dusty red object...
A new study, led by Dr Vanessa Hull of the Michigan State University’s Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, has revealed more details on...
A multinational group of paleontologists has described a prehistoric lobster-like animal from the Marble Canyon site, part of the renowned Canadian Burgess...
