A linguistics researcher at the Macquarie University in Australia has discovered that the language, known as Burushaski, which is spoken by about 90,000...
New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have challenged prevailing ideas about how supermassive black holes grow in the centers of galaxies.
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Re-analysis of the braincase of Acanthodes bronni has revealed that this 290-million-year-old fossil fish resembled a shark.
The fossilized braincase...
An international team of scientists led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig has completed the genome...
A new study into the biogeography of Antarctica has identified 15 distinct regions on the continent and near-shore islands.
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Italian scientists have proposed an explanation for the origin of mysterious ripples on stalactites.
Stalactites in the Choranche caves in the Vercors,...
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...
An international consortium of universities and institutions has recently completed the first sequencing of the Asiatic pear genome.
Asiatic pear, also...
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.
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An international team of researchers has discovered alien-looking nanoparticles inside bubbles of glass in lunar soil.
TXM tomography reconstruction anaglyph...
The Andromeda galaxy, also known as M31, and the Triangulum galaxy, or M33, may have brushed closely billions of years ago, new observations indicate.
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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...
A new study by a team of biologists and geochemists from GEOMAR-Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, has demonstrated that Desulfobulbus...
Scientists at the University of California in Santa Cruz have found why insects got smaller despite rising oxygen levels about 150 million years ago.
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An international team of astrophysicists has discovered that black holes can change between two different modes, like changing the gears of an engine.
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Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a spectacular 2000-year-old gold and silver hoard in the Qiryat Gat region.
The 2000-year-old hoard from the Qiryat...
The reconstruction of human limb bones found in Atapuerca, Spain, has helped scientists to determine the height of the human species Homo heidelbergensis.
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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...
