One fly and two mites found in droplets of amber from northeastern Italy are about 100 million years older than any other amber arthropod – invertebrate...
An international group of astronomers has announced the discovery of two groups of galaxies that are just like ours.
Image shows one of the two ‘exact...
An international team of astronomers using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope has found evidence of an extrasolar planet’s destruction by aging parent star.
An...
According to an international team of anthropologists, an ancient skull collected from a cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos is the oldest...
Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have captured a new and very detailed image of Barnard 59, part of a dark cloud of interstellar dust...
Archaeologists of the Tel Aviv University have unearthed a seal, measuring about a half-inch in diameter, which depicts a human figure next to a lion at...
Zooarchaeologists at the University of Florida have found that the wild turkey was domesticated by the ancient Maya more than 1,000 years earlier than...
An arachnologist from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, has discovered the world’s first eyeless huntsman spider.
A very special...
Archaeologists have discovered that people living 700 to 900 years ago in Cahokia, a massive pre-Columbian settlement near the confluence of the Missouri...
Astronomers led by Dr Stella Kafka of the Carnegie Institution for Science have reported the discovery of a star system, prior to explosion, which will...
ESA’s Mars Express has observed the southern part of a 440-km wide crater, informally named Ladon basin.
The image shows the interconnected craters Sigli...
Giant ice avalanches discovered on Saturn’s moon Iapetus provide clue to extreme slippage elsewhere in the Solar System.
When the rimwall of Iapetus’s...
An international team of archaeologists has unearthed a beautiful and colossal human sculpture at the Tayinat Archaeological Project excavation site in...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered two ancient species of South American rodents, including the oldest chinchilla, a discovery that...
After sequencing the complete genome of Leishmania donovani, a parasite causing one of the most important tropical diseases after malaria, a team of scientists...
An international consortium of plant scientists has completed the first sequencing of the banana genome.
Bananas (Steve Hopson / www.stevehopson.com)
The...
