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Astronomers using data from two space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a hot gas giant called Kepler-7b. This artist’s rendering shows...

Entomologists from Panama, Europe, Canada and Brazil have teamed up to describe in detail the different degrees of maternal instincts present within eight...

Olenellids – an early group of trilobites – were able to roll themselves up defensively, according to Dr Javier Ortega-Hernández from the...

A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience explains how global atmospheric circulation creates a previously undetected layer of ozone above...

Men who have low levels of testosterone, a key male sex hormone that helps maintain sex drive, sperm production and bone health, may have a slightly elevated...

Astronomers using ArTeMiS, a new instrument installed on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment – a 12-m diameter telescope in the Atacama Desert, have...

Fourteen-year-long archaeological excavations in the Parc National des Écrins in the southern Alps have provided evidence of human activity from the...

In five papers published today in the journal Science, scientists using the ChemCam, CheMin instruments, the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) and...

Nineteen elements – including gold, arsenic, fluorine, cadmium, molybdenum and thorium – have been assigned new atomic weights, according to...

A team of astronomers led by Dr Alessandro Papitto from the Institute of Space Studies of Barcelona has discovered a fast-spinning pulsar that switches...

A new study, reported in the Journal of Archaeological Science, explores behavior of Aboriginal Australians during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM for short). Aboriginal...

New, deep observations of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1689 have revealed that it hosts the largest population of globular clusters ever found. This...

Astronomers led by Prof Joss Bland-Hawthorn from the University of Sydney have found evidence that the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy,...

Audubon’s warblers (Setophaga coronata auduboni) may have acquired genes from fellow migrating songbirds in order to travel greater distances, say...

Astronomers have used ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope to produce a stunning new image of a large stellar nursery called the Prawn Nebula. This image shows...

A team of scientists reporting in the journal Biological Psychiatry has been able to erase dangerous drug-associated memories in mice and rats without...

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra space observatory have discovered enormous arms of X-ray emitting plasma in the Coma cluster of galaxies. This composite...

NASA scientists reported Thursday that the Mars rover Curiosity has not found any clear signs of methane, a gas that on our planet is a strong indicator...

According to a study reported in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, a new gonorrhea treatment has successfully eliminated gonococcal infection from female...

British astrobiologists are claiming to have found alien life form in the Earth’s stratosphere. They collected a small diatom frustule that could...