Brazilian arachnologists from Butantan Institute and the University of Brasília have discovered three new of wafer trapdoor spiders.
Female Fufius lucasae,...
British astronomers reporting in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (arXiv.org) have found two of the oldest brown dwarfs in...
Scientists from the University of Münster have unearthed 600 amulets, stamp and cylinder seals dating from the 7th through the 4th centuries BC at the...
Scientists from the University of Oxford and Plymouth University, both in UK, have found evidence of Neanderthal and Denisovan viruses in DNA of modern...
U.S. researchers reporting in the journal Nature Geoscience have found strong evidence that the Red Planet has granitic rocks.
Distinctive feldspar-rich...
A multinational team of researchers has cracked the mystery behind the unusually strong El Niño events that occurred in 1982-1983 and 1997-1998.
El Niño,...
Australian botanists have described a new species of high-altitude species of sedge from south-western Tasmania.
Lepidosperma monticola at Mt. Field National...
Scientists have analyzed the complete mitochondrial genomes of 18 prehistoric wolf- and dog-like animals to show that more than 18,000 years ago, dogs...
According to new research published this week in the journal Nature, an acyldepsipeptide antibiotic called ADEP in combination with the bactericidal antibiotic...
According to Durham University anthropologist Dr Jamshid Tehrani, evolutionary analysis can be used to study similarities among folktales. His findings...
A team of archaeologists from the United States and Mexico has detected chili pepper residues in over 2,000-year-old pottery samples unearthed at the site...
An international team of researchers using ESA’s XMM-Newton Space Telescope has found the first evidence of heavy atoms in jets emitted by a stellar-mass...
Scientists using the 2.2-m telescope at La Silla Observatory, Chile, have captured a stunning new image of glowing gas clouds around the young open star...
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...
