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...
A constant stabilization experiment of a quantum state has been successfully completed for the first time by a team from the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel,...
Princeton researchers have for the first time matched images of brain activity with categories of words related to the concepts a person is thinking about....
Mars Express has spotted a rare case of a crater once filled by a lake, revealed by the presence of a delta.
This delta is an ancient fan-shaped deposit...
MIT researchers found that there are parts of our brain dedicated to language and only language. Findings of their research mark a major advance in the...
Researchers from Germany, France and the United Kingdom have engineered a material that exhibits a rare and versatile trait in magnetism at room temperature.
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The CLOUD experiment at CERN has been designed to study the effect of cosmic rays on the formation of atmospheric aerosols under controlled laboratory...
NASA has selected three proposals as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space navigation and in-space propulsion...
Scientists using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with temperatures...
