The well-preserved, genetically intact skeleton of a teenage girl who lived about 13,000-12,000 years ago in what is now Mexico is helping resolve a long-standing...
A newly discovered extrasolar planet takes about 80,000 years to make a complete orbit around its star, GU Psc.
This composite image shows the exoplanet...
Sometimes, studying past technologies leads to remarkable discoveries that can help design better materials for the future. This is the little known science...
Paleontologists from the Case Western Reserve University have discovered a fossil of a kitten-sized predator that lived in what is now Bolivia during the...
Astronomers from the United States, Russia and Australia have discovered the first true solar sibling – HD 162826.
HD 162826. Image credit: sky-map.org.
HD...
An international team of botanists has described a new, nickel-hyperaccumulating species of plant from Luzon Island, Philippines.
Rinorea niccolifera....
Australian researchers led by Dr Timothy Bredy of the University of Queensland’s Queensland Brain Institute say they may have found a way to silence...
Entomologists have discovered 24 new species of wasps that mummify caterpillars, several were named after famous people including Jimmy Fallon, John Stewart,...
Astronomers from the United States and China have discovered a hypervelocity star (HVS) that is the closest bright HVS and one of the three most massive...
Scientists from Alberta Geological Survey and the University of Alberta have discovered an 8 km wide bowl-shaped impact crater near Bow City in southern...
Astronomers led Dr Mark Vogelsberger of MIT/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have created the first realistic virtual Universe using a computer...
Entomologists from Switzerland led by Dr Rainer Neumeyer have described a new species of the wasp genus Polistes from Central Europe.
The Swiss paper wasp,...
Scientists from the Universidad de La República in Uruguay have described three new species of tarantulas from northern Argentina.
The newly discovered...
Paleontologists led by Dr Phil Manning of the University of Manchester have used a highly sensitive synchrotron-imaging technique to reveal ancient injuries...
An analysis of 253 nightmares and 431 bad dreams conducted by Canadian psychology researchers shows that nightmares have greater emotional impact than...
According to scientists led by Dr Richard Kramer from the University of California, a chemical ‘photoswitch’ named DENAQ may be a potential drug for...
Biologists led by Dr Somsak Panha from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok have described a new genus and three new species of carnivorous land snails...
