Fourteen-year-long archaeological excavations in the Parc National des Écrins in the southern Alps have provided evidence of human activity from the...
In five papers published today in the journal Science, scientists using the ChemCam, CheMin instruments, the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) and...
A team of astronomers led by Dr Alessandro Papitto from the Institute of Space Studies of Barcelona has discovered a fast-spinning pulsar that switches...
A new study, reported in the Journal of Archaeological Science, explores behavior of Aboriginal Australians during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM for short).
Aboriginal...
New, deep observations of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1689 have revealed that it hosts the largest population of globular clusters ever found.
This...
Astronomers led by Prof Joss Bland-Hawthorn from the University of Sydney have found evidence that the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy,...
Astronomers have used ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope to produce a stunning new image of a large stellar nursery called the Prawn Nebula.
This image shows...
A team of scientists reporting in the journal Biological Psychiatry has been able to erase dangerous drug-associated memories in mice and rats without...
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra space observatory have discovered enormous arms of X-ray emitting plasma in the Coma cluster of galaxies.
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NASA scientists reported Thursday that the Mars rover Curiosity has not found any clear signs of methane, a gas that on our planet is a strong indicator...
According to a study reported in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, a new gonorrhea treatment has successfully eliminated gonococcal infection from female...
Scientists from Canada and the United States have isolated a new unicellular anaerobic eukaryote from brackish estuarine sediment collected just below...
An international collaboration of physicists conducting experiments at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has determined for the first...
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...
