Jun 22, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has discovered a bigger version of Earth locked in an orbital tug-of-war with a much larger, Neptune-sized planet...

Jun 20, 2012 by News Staff

ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has taken the most detailed image so far of the stellar nursery called NGC 6357. ESO's VLT has taken the most detailed...

Jun 20, 2012 by News Staff

BaBar experiment team has announced that their latest data suggest possible flaws in the Standard Model of particle physics, the reigning description of...

Jun 19, 2012 by News Staff

A linguistics researcher at the Macquarie University in Australia has discovered that the language, known as Burushaski, which is spoken by about 90,000...

Jun 15, 2012 by News Staff

New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have challenged prevailing ideas about how supermassive black holes grow in the centers of galaxies. NGC...

Jun 15, 2012 by News Staff

Re-analysis of the braincase of Acanthodes bronni has revealed that this 290-million-year-old fossil fish resembled a shark. The fossilized braincase...

Jun 14, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of scientists led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig has completed the genome...

Jun 14, 2012 by News Staff

A new study into the biogeography of Antarctica has identified 15 distinct regions on the continent and near-shore islands. 15 Antarctic Conservation Biogeographic...

Jun 14, 2012 by News Staff

Italian scientists have proposed an explanation for the origin of mysterious ripples on stalactites. Stalactites in the Choranche caves in the Vercors,...

Jun 13, 2012 by News Staff

A team of researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology using Kepler Telescope data from two stars in our galaxy has created sounds for a national recording...

Jun 13, 2012 by News Staff

An international consortium of universities and institutions has recently completed the first sequencing of the Asiatic pear genome. Asiatic pear, also...

Jun 13, 2012 by News Staff

A team of scientists has shown that brain levels of serotonin, the happy hormone, are regulated by the amount of bacteria in the gut during early life. E....

Jun 12, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has discovered alien-looking nanoparticles inside bubbles of glass in lunar soil. TXM tomography reconstruction anaglyph...

Jun 12, 2012 by News Staff

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as M31, and the Triangulum galaxy, or M33, may have brushed closely billions of years ago, new observations indicate. Artist’s...

Jun 11, 2012 by News Staff

A new DNA analysis of rocky soils in the martian-like landscape on some volcanoes in South America has revealed a handful of bacteria, fungi, and other...

Jun 11, 2012 by News Staff

A new study by a team of biologists and geochemists from GEOMAR-Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, has demonstrated that Desulfobulbus...

Jun 8, 2012 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), an international team of scientists has discovered about 200 brown dwarfs, including a few...

Jun 8, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what they believe is the faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in...

Jun 8, 2012 by News Staff

Scientists at the University of California in Santa Cruz have found why insects got smaller despite rising oxygen levels about 150 million years ago. This...

Jun 8, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astrophysicists has discovered that black holes can change between two different modes, like changing the gears of an engine. Artist’s...