Astronomers using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope in Chile have captured a new view deep inside the Lagoon Nebula, also known as Messier 8 or NGC 6523.
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Physicists from CERN’s Atomic Spectroscopy and Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons (ASACUSA) project say they have produced at least 80 atoms of antihydrogen.
Hydrogen’s...
Climate change, violence and disease played a key role in the collapse of the Harappan civilization more than 3,000 years ago, according to a new study.
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Researchers from the Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) Program have described a new species of anemone from waters beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.
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Using the 10-m Keck I Telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, an international group of astronomers has discovered a distant quasar illuminating...
By using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), Japanese astronomers have spotted strong evidence of a massive planet-forming disk around...
Biologists from Czech Republic, the United States and Peru have described a new species of the true toad genus Rhinella.
Rhinella yunga, adult female....
U.S. archaeologists digging at Abydos, Egypt say they have discovered the tomb of Woseribre-Senebkay, a previously unknown Egyptian pharaoh who ruled during...
A new analysis of modern dog, wolf and golden jackal genomes suggests that dogs and wolves evolved from a common ancestor between 11,000 and 16,000 years...
By using the same experimental framework normally applied to test learnt behavioral responses in animals, biologists from Australia and Italy have successfully...
The new research reported in the journal Nature shows for the first time that birds precisely time when they flap their wings and position themselves in...
According to an international group of scientists led by Dr Nate Stephenson of the US Geological Survey, most of tropical and temperate tree species grow...
Biologists, reporting in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, have identified more than 180 species of biofluorescent fishes. Their study shows that biofluorescence...
Marine biologists from Spain and the United Kingdom have described a tiny new species of crustacean from waters off South Africa and have named it after...
An international team of astronomers has discovered three new extrasolar planets in an open star cluster known as Messier 67: two planets circling dwarf...
