Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have discovered a new mineral embedded in the Allende meteorite that fell in central Mexico more...
In face of what has become a precipitous slide toward extinction across the Asian continent, the vultures of Cambodia have persisted, giving conservationists...
Scientists, using images collected over several years by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, have discovered that the heat from within Saturn powers turbulent...
After 10 years of archaeological investigations, researchers from the Stonehenge Riverside Project (SRP) have concluded that Stonehenge was built as a...
A new research by ESA scientists is giving credibility to theories that life came from outer space – as well as helping to create better suncreams.
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A team of US researchers, including NASA scientists, has found that ancient Antarctica was much warmer and wetter than previously suspected.
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A Norwegian-Syrian team of archaeologists has solved one of the great puzzles of the Roman Empire: why was the vibrant city of Palmyra located in the middle...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a bigger version of Earth locked in an orbital tug-of-war with a much larger, Neptune-sized planet...
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has taken the most detailed image so far of the stellar nursery called NGC 6357.
ESO's VLT has taken the most detailed...
BaBar experiment team has announced that their latest data suggest possible flaws in the Standard Model of particle physics, the reigning description of...
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.
15 Antarctic Conservation Biogeographic...
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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