The reconstruction of human limb bones found in Atapuerca, Spain, has helped scientists to determine the height of the human species Homo heidelbergensis.
The...
Using data from ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers have detected a long-sought X-ray echo that promises a new way to probe supermassive black holes...
Astronomers using Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) have captured a new image of the centre of the distinctive galaxy Centaurus A.
This...
Forensic anthropologists at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville have found that heads of Americans are getting larger.
Uncle Sam, a national personification...
Scientists from Simon Fraser University in Canada and University of Tasmania in Australia have found that sea and land cold-blooded animals differ in their...
A new study has revealed that it took about 10 million years for Earth to recover from the greatest mass extinction of all time.
End-Permian Earth (Christine...
Researchers have found strong evidence that carbon in Martian meteorites, including in the famous Allan Hills 84001, is indigenous – and not contamination...
Oxford and Tübingen scientists have identified what they believe are the world’s oldest known musical instruments.
Mammoth-, left, and bird-bone flutes...
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a model of a wind-driven tumbleweed Mars rover capable of moving across rocky Martian terrain.
Model...
Tel Aviv University archaeologists have discovered a collection of gold and silver jewelry, dated from around 1100 B.C., hidden in a vessel at the archaeological...
US paleontologists have uncovered fossils of three new raptor dinosaurs that roamed what is now eastern Utah about 130 million years ago.
Artist’s reconstruction...
A team of astronomers has detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent...
A team of astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars.
Three...
A team of paleontologists and volunteers has discovered remains of at least seven different killer dinosaurs that once lived in what is now south-eastern...
British paleontologists have found signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis in the jaw of a pliosaur, an ancient sea reptile that lived...
A team of anthropologists has determined that a 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone found in a collapsed rock shelter in southern France constitutes...
