A group of paleontologists led by Dr Andrew Farke from Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology has described a new genus and species of ceratopsian dinosaur...
A hoard of Roman and Pictish hacked-up silver, coins and jewelry has been found in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Archaeologist examines a crescent shaped brooch...
According to a new study carried out by ornithologists at the University of British Columbia, Canada, hummingbirds are surprisingly sensitive to movements...
A multinational team of paleontologists headed by Dr Thomas Harvey from the University of Leicester, UK, has described a strange balloon-shaped animal...
An international team of scientists led by Dr David Bish of Indiana University has analyzed recent data from the CheMin, a miniaturized X-ray diffraction...
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab physicists using one of the most powerful lasers in the world have accelerated electrons to the highest energies ever recorded...
Titan is one of the few bodies in the Solar System known to have fields of wind-blown dunes on its surface. A new study published in the journal Nature...
A new study published in the journal Cognitive Therapy and Research has found that people who sleep for shorter periods of time and go to bed very late...
NASA has released a dazzling image from the Hubble Space Telescope, showing a nearby spiral galaxy called NGC 4102.
Color composite image of the starburst...
Swedish archaeologists Dr Andreas Viberg of Stockholm University and Dr Martin Rundkvist of the University of Umeå have found the remains of a major Viking...
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has just returned its first photo of the dwarf planet Ceres, taken from 1.2 million kilometers away.
Dawn spacecraft captured...
After a voyage of nine years and five billion kilometers, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is literally on Pluto’s doorstep, on schedule, in good health,...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a new example of a jet-emitting spiral galaxy, SDSS J164924.01+263502.5 (J1649+2635 for short).
J1649+2635...
NASA scientists using the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have captured an image of...
A new study carried out by Dr Kenneth Catania from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, reveals that an electric fish known the electric eel (Electrophorus...
An international team of scientists from Israel and Thailand has found that Old World fruit bats, which have always been classified as non-echolocating,...
According to a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE, a small, non-migratory population of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Arabian...
A multinational group of scientists led by Prof Wil Roebroeks of Leiden University in the Netherlands has discovered the earliest known engraving on a...
