Archaeologists from the United Kingdom discovered graffiti by British punk band Sex Pistols on the walls of the flat the band rented in London in the...
The MESSENGER spacecraft captured an image, which gives us a close-up look at the crater Kalidasa, named for the renowned classical Sanskrit writer Kālidāsa,...
Researchers from Tel Aviv University predict lightning sprites in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn and Venus.
Only a few decades ago, scientists discovered...
Researchers used Alaskan huskies to demonstrate the serious health risks posed by contaminants, such as mercury, in the subsistence diets that both indigenous...
Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in creating light from vacuum – observing an effect first predicted over 40 years...
A team of researchers led by University of Colorado has discovered the first prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast ever found in Alaska, a small,...
Researchers from University of California Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology have developed the world’s lightest material...
Using the LABOCA camera on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope on the plateau of Chajnantor in the Chilean Andes, a team of astronomers...
Voyager 2 has successfully switched to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft, according to a press release from NASA’s...
An international team of scientists has unlocked the mystery of how horses depicted in prehistoric cave paintings are lifelike in nature, using ancient...
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a lost civilisation of the Sahara, in one of the harshest parts of the African desert.
Researchers from the...
Space scientists investigating the composition of very distant galaxies have discovered two galaxies in the young Universe that have more heavy chemical...
ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has discovered an ozone layer high in the atmosphere of Venus. Comparing its properties with those of the equivalent layers...
A new image from ESO’s telescope reveals the Lambda Centauri Nebula, a cloud of glowing hydrogen and newborn stars in the constellation of Centaurus....
An innovative method for examining paintings has revealed a hitherto unknown painting beneath Goya’s Portrait of Don Ramón Satué, one of his most celebrated...
Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, during tests of new nanomaterial called nanoblades for use in hydrogen storage, have discovered that it...
The HARPS team led by Michel Mayor from University of Geneva, Switzerland, announced the discovery of more than 50 new exoplanets orbiting nearby stars,...
ESO’s New Technology Telescope has captured an image of the open cluster NGC 2100. This brilliant star cluster is around 15 million years old, and located...
Researchers from California Institute of Technology and UCLA reported that neurons throughout the amygdala, a center in the brain known for processing...
