Paleoanthropologists at the Wits Institute for Human Evolution in Johannesburg, South Africa, have announced the discovery of a large rock containing significant...
An international team of researchers has found that Native American populations arose from at least three migrations, with the majority descended entirely...
Astronomers using NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected a fifth and tiniest moon yet orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto.
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British archaeologists and engineers have collaborated to examine buried Roman coins using the latest X-ray imaging technology.
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An international group of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has studied some of the smallest and faintest galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood.
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Archaeologists using uranium-series dating technique have found that a reindeer engraved on the wall of a cave in South Wales dates from about 14,505 years...
Chinese archaeologists have recently found fragments of pottery in Xianrendong Cave, Jiangxi Province in China, that date back about 20,000 years.
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Astronomers working with the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope on Hawaii have discovered four pairs of stars that orbit each other in less than 4 hours.
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Scientists using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have found that Saturn’s moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its ice shell.
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The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) and the ATLAS experiments at CERN presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs boson...
European scientists have discovered a 100 km-wide crater, the result of a massive asteroid or comet impact a billion years before any other known collision...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of feathered dinosaur in southern Germany.
Skeleton of Sciurumimus on a limestone...
A team of researchers from the University of Alberta and the Universidad de la República in Uruguay has uncovered physical proof that animals existed...
A new fish fossil from the lower Eocene found by Oxford University researcher Dr Matt Friedman has revealed why flatfishes have one of the most unusual...
Researchers have finished counting, outlining and cataloging a staggering 635,000 impact craters on Mars that are roughly a kilometer or more in diameter.
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A team of European scientists working with Bartonella bacteria has identified a new mechanism of bacterial pathogenesis.
Bartonella bacterium (Ceshencam)
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