In a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (arXiv.org), astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the University of California...
A large group of researchers from Canada has developed a new tuberculosis vaccine based on a genetically modified cold virus.
This colorized scanning electron...
Planetary scientists have discovered remnants of giant supervolcanoes in a region in the northern highlands of Mars known as Arabia Terra. The discovery...
Scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have discovered a peptide in the venom of the Chinese red-headed centipede,...
Waiting actually does make people more patient, which can provide a payoff for consumers by helping them make better decisions, according to Dr Ayelet...
A team of scientists led by Dr Peter Fraser from the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK, has developed a new method to determine the 3D structures of...
Astronomers using data from two space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a hot gas giant called Kepler-7b.
This artist’s rendering shows...
Entomologists from Panama, Europe, Canada and Brazil have teamed up to describe in detail the different degrees of maternal instincts present within eight...
A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience explains how global atmospheric circulation creates a previously undetected layer of ozone above...
Men who have low levels of testosterone, a key male sex hormone that helps maintain sex drive, sperm production and bone health, may have a slightly elevated...
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.
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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,...
