Camera traps set up in a remote corner of the Central Annamite mountains by World Wildlife Fund biologists have taken images of the saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis),...
Two researchers at the University of Toronto have created and tested a new type of active invisibility cloak that can hide objects over a wide range of...
According to geologists led by Dr Antonio Simonetti from the University of Notre Dame, a detailed analysis of calcite-rich minerals from the 120-million-year-old...
According to physicists of the Beijing-based BESIII experiment, their discovery of a new subatomic particle named Zc (4020) hints at a novel class of four-quark...
Dr Nora Noffke from Old Dominion University in Norfolk and her colleagues have unearthed evidence of complex microbial ecosystems in 3.48 billion year...
An international team of scientists led by Dr Patrick Hall of York University in Toronto has discovered a new type of quasars.
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A team of entomologists has discovered a new scorpion species that lives in Muğla and Antalya provinces in southwestern Turkey.
Euscorpius lycius, a male...
Biologists have announced the discovery of an extraordinary new species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae.
Beautiful inflorescence of Coespeletia...
A new study reported in the journal Nature Communications provides the first multi-disciplinary evidence that humans in what is now China first domesticated...
A group of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a unique multi-tailed object, labeled P/2013 P5, in the main asteroid belt.
P/2013...
Wildlife Conservation Society biologists have discovered cave paintings made by hunter-gatherers between 10,000 to 4,000 years ago while studying wild...
A team of scientists has found a well-preserved, 165-million-year-old fossil of copulating froghoppers, Anthoscytina perpetua, at the Daohugou village...
European scientists examined liquid basalt at record high pressures and temperatures to better understand how our planet evolved billions of years ago.
Early...
An object that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February 2013 initially measured 20-m across and was about 4,452 million years old, according to three...
Entomologists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have described 277 new species of braconid wasps in the tribe Heterospilini.
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A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences correlates 93 small earthquakes near Snyder, Texas between 2009...
According to new research reported in the journal Scientific Reports (full paper), infertile clay in oceans of the early Earth may have been the birthplace...
Researchers reporting in the journal Climate of the Past have identified regions of Antarctica they say could record the past 1.5 million years of Earth’s...
Using camera traps, British biologists have captured photographs of the world’s least known cat, the bay cat (Pardofelis badia).
The Bay Cat, Pardofelis...
