Archaeologists from the United States and Israel have discovered well-preserved lower levels of what they believe is an early Roman period mansion, possibly...
British scientists have answered the question about which direction the centre of our planet spins. The inner core, made up of solid iron, superrotates...
According to a team of astronomers from Australia and Europe reporting in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, IRAS 15445-5449 – an...
New radiocarbon dating on seashell beads found at the Paleolithic site of Ksar Akil in Lebanon indicates that the earliest fully modern humans arrived...
According to Dr David Penney and his colleagues at the University of Manchester, UK, the existence of ancient DNA in amber fossils is highly unlikely.
The...
According to a team of planetary scientists led by Dr Manuel Roda from the Utrecht University, a huge impact crater on Mars known as Aram Chaos formed...
Two international teams of astronomers have used ESO’s VISTA telescope and MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope, both in Chile, to produce the best 3D map yet of...
According to a team of scientists reporting online in the journal Science, NASA’s Voyager 1 has indeed left the Solar System and entered interstellar...
A newly developed vaccine has the ability to completely kill simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in non-human primates, according to scientists at Oregon...
British researchers have discovered that copper and copper alloys can rapidly destroy norovirus – the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis worldwide.
This...
A new study published in the journal Language (full paper) provides the first empirical evidence to prove that television viewing does help to accelerate...
Arizona State University researchers reporting this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have found that fragments of the Sutter’s...
An international team of astronomers has used the Low Frequency Receiver onboard the twin Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) to learn more...
A team of researchers led by Dr Alon Gorodetsky of the University of California, Irvine, has developed a tunable biomimetic infrared camouflage coating...
Scientists from the United States and Switzerland have demonstrated a novel mechanism for extracting energy from light.
Dr Bonnell and her colleagues fabricated...
Researchers from Japan and the United States have used two digital single-lens reflex cameras set 5 miles apart to capture 3D images of Aurora Borealis...
An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of a 6.1-million-year-old relatively complete and largely undistorted juvenile cranium...
An international team of researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology has found evidence that ageing works through a special set of genes that...
The particles streaming into the Solar System from interstellar space have changed direction over the last forty years, says a group of astrophysicists...
A team of scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has filmed for the first time the deep-sea squid Grimalditeuthis bonplandi...
