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Sep 9, 2019 by News Staff

A multinational team of scientists has sequenced the first genome of an individual from the Harappan Civilization. The genome, which belongs to a woman who lived 4,000-5,000 years ago, suggests that modern people in India are likely to be largely descended from people of this ancient civilization. It also offers an insight into how farming began in South Asia, showing that it was not brought by large-scale movement of people from the Fertile Crescent...

Sep 6, 2019 by Natali Anderson

A new genus and species of hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur has been identified from bones discovered six years ago in Japan. Life reconstruction of...

Sep 5, 2019 by News Staff

Tyrannosaurus rex, a species of carnivorous dinosaur that lived about 68 million years ago, had an internal thermostat in its head, according to a study...

Sep 4, 2019 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility have caught an active asteroid called (6478) Gault in the act of changing color — in the near-infrared...

Sep 4, 2019 by News Staff

Venus’ surface has never been seen by the human eye because of opaque, highly reflective clouds which permanently cover the planet. What is curious about...

Sep 3, 2019 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers from the Red Dots Collaboration have detected three rocky exoplanets orbiting Gliese 1061, which is the 20th nearest star to the Sun. The outermost...

Sep 3, 2019 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international consortium of researchers has sequenced the genome of the common pea (Pisum sativum), the second most important grain legume in the world...

Sep 2, 2019 by News Staff

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a thread-like ferromagnetic robot that can glide through complex...

Aug 30, 2019 by News Staff

Archaeologists have uncovered almost two hundred stone artifacts, including projectile points and flake tools, and bone fragments from large mammals at...

Aug 30, 2019 by News Staff

A volcanically active rocky exomoon may orbit WASP-49b, a hot gas giant approximately 550 light-years away in the constellation of Lepus. An artist’s...

Aug 29, 2019 by News Staff

Australopithecus anamensis is the earliest-known species in the genus Australopithecus. The species is widely accepted as the ancestor of Lucy’s species,...

Aug 29, 2019 by News Staff

Using data from several ground-based telescopes, astronomers found that a nearby star called HR 5183 hosts a giant planet with an orbital period of between...

Aug 28, 2019 by News Staff

Astronomers have re-examined data from GRB 160821B, a short duration gamma-ray burst spotted on August 21, 2016, and found evidence for a kilonova, an...

Aug 27, 2019 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of cynodont has been identified from a fossilized skull found in the San Juan province, Argentina. An artist’s impression of Pseudotherium...

Aug 26, 2019 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) have spotted propadiene — a colorless, flammable gas, best known as a fuel for specialized...

Aug 26, 2019 by News Staff

People who have dogs are more likely to achieve the recommended level of behavioral cardiovascular health metrics such as physical activity and diet than...

Aug 23, 2019 by News Staff

A team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin and the Universität Mainz has developed the world’s smallest engine. The nanoscale heat engine. Image...

Aug 22, 2019 by News Staff

Astronomers have announced the discovery of the most massive star ever known to be destroyed by a supernova explosion. Dubbed SN 2016iet, the explosive...

Aug 22, 2019 by News Staff

Paleontologists in Morocco have found fossil fragments from a new genus and species of stegosaur that walked the Earth about 168 million years ago (Jurassic...

Aug 21, 2019 by News Staff

Underwater archaeologists working off the coast of the Isle of Wight have discovered an 8,000-year-old structure next to what is believed to be the world’s...