Mar 25, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists using ESA’s Planck satellite have released the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Cosmic microwave...

Mar 20, 2013 by News Staff

For the first time ever, a multinational team of astronomers from France, the UK, the United States, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Australia, has...

Mar 18, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the United States, France, Japan and the Netherlands, has found in mice that macrophages, white blood cells that play a key...

Mar 16, 2013 by News Staff

A new research published in the March 8 issue of the journal Science finally proves that a single anti-ageing enzyme in the body can be targeted, with...

Mar 15, 2013 by News Staff

A team of astronomers has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size extrasolar planet. Artist’s rendering of the...

Mar 14, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists from CERN’s CMS and ATLAS experiments have presented new results that further elucidate the particle discovered in 2012. H -> 2e2mu candidate...

Mar 14, 2013 by News Staff

An expedition of archaeologists has unearthed a 600-year-old Chinese coin on the island of Manda, off the northern coast of Kenya. Chinese coin found on...

Mar 13, 2013 by News Staff

By combining multiple telescope observations and advanced modeling, a multinational team of astronomers has discovered an extremely rare triple quasar...

Mar 12, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a very rare Type Ibn supernova on the outskirts of a bright elliptical galaxy located...

Mar 10, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists led by the University of California Los Angeles has found that levels of a peptide called hypocretin (also known as...

Mar 7, 2013 by News Staff

U.S. researchers have discovered a long-lived zone of high-energy electrons stored between Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts. Two giant swaths of radiation,...

Mar 6, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of researchers from Australia, Argentina and Chile has found the answer to one of natural history’s most intriguing puzzles...

Mar 6, 2013 by News Staff

A new study by Prof Mike Brown from the California Institute of Technology and Dr Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory suggests that salty water...

Mar 1, 2013 by News Staff

A team of students from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, using the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment’s telescope ROTSE3b at the McDonald...

Feb 27, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found tantalizing evidence for the existence of a shell of stars that...

Feb 21, 2013 by News Staff

An ongoing study led by two San Francisco Bay Area scientists, Dr Roy Caldwell of the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr Richard Ross of the California...

Oct 11, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers have discovered an unexpected spiral structure in the gas around the red giant star R Sculptoris. Observations using ALMA have revealed an...

Oct 10, 2012 by News Staff

ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured a beautiful image of the Thor’s Helmet Nebula. The Thor’s Helmet Nebula, also known as NGC 2359, as...

Oct 2, 2012 by News Staff

NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured images of bedrock that suggest a fast-moving stream once flowed on the Martian surface. “From the size of...

Sep 27, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have captured a new image of part of the Seagull Nebula. This cloud of gas known as Sharpless 2-292...