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According to European scientists reporting in the journal Nature, bottlenose dolphins and bats have a genetic resemblance due to their echolocation capability. A...

Scientists have reported the discovery of two new species of toothed electric knifefishes that live under rafts of unrooted grasses and water hyacinth...

British archaeologists led by Dr Michael Dee from the University of Oxford have been able for the first time to set a robust timeline for the first eight...

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ESO’s New Technology Telescope, two astronomers from University of Manchester, UK, have studied 130...

According to a new study by Prof Timothy Hatton from the University of Essex and the Australian National University in Canberra, the average height of...

Dr Kate Loveman from the University of Leicester, UK, has uncovered the first English recipes for chilled chocolate treats, collected by the Earl of Sandwich...

According to archaeologists from the Tel Aviv University, copper mines in Timna Valley that were thought to have been built by ancient Egyptians in the...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has taken a major step in understanding why gas near the Milky Way’s...

Astronomers from Canada and France have announced the discovery of the first Trojan asteroid known to share its orbit with Uranus. This image shows the...

Scientists from New Zealand, Ecuador, Australia and the United States have identified a new songbird family – the Mohouidae – in New Zealand. The...

An international team of researchers using radar data from NASA’s Operation IceBridge has discovered a previously unmapped canyon hidden for all...

New gravity and topography data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal unexpected features of the Titan’s outer ice shell. This image is a composite...

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have identified the oldest solar twin known to date. This image shows the Sun-like star HIP 102152. Credit:...

An international team of scientists from Switzerland, Australia, Germany and the United States has discovered remains of three hunter-gatherer settlements...

European hunter-gatherers began farming pigs around 4600 BC, according to an international team of researchers led by Dr Ben Krause-Kyora from the Christian-Albrechts...

Recently discovered fossils of Leedsichthys – the biggest fish that ever swam in oceans – show that the prehistoric creature could grow to 26 –...

Language can play a powerful role in what we see, say Prof Gary Lupyan from the University of Wisconsin and Emily Ward from Yale University. These images...

According to a team of Russian scientists reporting today at the Goldschmidt conference in Italy, the Chelyabinsk meteorite either collided with another...

According to a new mice study reported in the Journal of Neuroscience, immune system cells called to the brain in response to stress lead to anxiety symptoms. This...

A collector from Austria has found what experts say is the oldest globe to show the Americas. The ostrich egg globe was made in 1504. Scientists say the...