Marine biologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Western Australia Museum have made a surprising discovery in the waters off the coast...
Nicotine and other chemicals found in flowers of tobacco and other plants could be the right prescription for diseased bumblebees and bees, says a group...
According to a new study reported in the journal Evolutionary Biology, bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) only colonized the Mediterranean after...
According to a group of ornithologists led by Dr Christopher James Clark of the University of California, Riverside, the two subspecies of a hummingbird...
According to a group of researchers headed by Prof Asa Barber of the University of Portsmouth, UK, the teeth of limpets – small aquatic snails – are...
An international team of scientists led by Dr Eric Mamajek of the University of Rochester has determined that 70,000 years ago the recently discovered,...
The ability to use atmospheric nitrogen to support more widespread life was thought to have appeared 2 billion years ago. Now, a study led by Dr Eva Stüeken...
The Navigation Camera (NavCam) instrument on ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has captured close-up high-resolution images of the comet surface, revealing details...
Strange plumes that have been observed above the surface of the Red Planet are baffling scientists.
This image shows the location of the mysterious plume...
The Advanced Camera for Surveys on board NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a beautiful image of a globular star cluster called Palomar 12.
This...
An international group of genetic scientists led by Prof Jianzhi Zhang from the University of Michigan has found that penguins lost three of the five basic...
To understand why some galaxies burst while others do not, Dr David Meier of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the New Mexico Institute of Mining...
The cameras of Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990, pointed back toward the Sun and took a series of pictures of the Sun, Earth and other planets, making the...
In a new paper published in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, the team responsible for the visual effects at the center of Christopher Nolan’s...
Fossil remains of a 16 million-year-old fur seal, named Eotaria crypta, have shed light on the evolution of fur seals and sea lions.
The two seals on the...
A new study, reported in the journal Science, has found that more than 4.8 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the oceans from land each year,...
