With 31 years of data from more than 475,000 participants, a new study published in the journal Psychological Bulletin supports the widely held belief...
Scientists with NASA’s Dawn mission have pieced together a spectacular mosaic image of the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres.
The surface of Ceres is...
New images from the OSIRIS camera on European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe taken during the close flyby on February 14, 2015, reveal the surface of the...
Two of the four lineages of HIV-1 viruses have originated in western lowland gorillas, a new study reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy...
Brazilian astronomers using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer have discovered two clusters of stars forming at the very edge of our...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking image of a young variable star known as V1331 Cyg and its dusty environment.
This...
Violent collisions between the infant Earth and other objects in our Solar System generated significant amounts of iron vapor, says a group of researchers...
An international team of scientists, headed by Dr Darach Watson of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, has used the X-ray instrument on ESO’s Very...
An international team of scientists, co-led by Dr Luis Comolli of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Prof Jillian Banfield of the University...
A gene that is responsible for brain size in modern Homo sapiens and their ancient relatives, Neanderthals and Denisovans, has been identified by a team...
When recalling memories, some individuals can remember items incorrectly. Tiny, buzzing little insects known as bumblebees can be unreliable witnesses...
Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile have been able to get...
Geysers erupt periodically because of loops or side-chambers in their underground plumbing, says a team of volcanologists from the United States and Japan.
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