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Theoretical physicist Prof. Stephen Hawking and science philanthropist Yuri Milner unveiled this week a new initiative, called Breakthrough Starshot, to...

ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at Paranal Observatory in Chile has taken the best ever photo of a concentration of galaxies known as the Fornax Cluster. This...

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered the remains of 1,600-year-old glass kilns (Late Roman period) in the Jezreel...

A team of marine scientists has captured a rare video of thousands of pelagic red crabs (Pleuroncodes planipes) swarming in hypoxic (low-oxygen) waters...

Astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler mission have identified a new type of exoplanet called ‘hot super-Earths.’ In this artist’s conception...

Neanderthal Y-chromosome genes disappeared from the genome of modern humans long ago, suggests a new study published this week in the American Journal...

Scientists from the United States and Australia claim they have found a new way to inhibit the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacterium that is...

A team of paleontologists has found that fossilized leg bones of Asilisaurus kongwe — a dinosaur cousin that lived during the Middle Triassic epoch...

A single-molecule diode, the world’s smallest, has been created by a team of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the University of...

An international team of paleontologists has unearthed a fossilized arthropod that carried its young in pouches tethered to the parent’s body, like a...

An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Arnab Banerjee from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has found evidence of a mysterious state of matter –...

A team of astronomers led by Dr. Souza Oliveira Kepler from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, is reporting the discovery of a white...

According to Prof. Daniel P. Whitmire from the University of Arkansas, the suspected Planet Nine triggers comet showers linked to mass extinctions on Earth...

An international team of archaeologists has found a religious artifact with a sacred text in the Etruscan language. The 2,500-year-old Etruscan stele was...

A large team of paleontologists led by University of Liverpool scientist Dr. Karl Bates has developed computer models of the bodies of sauropod dinosaurs...

Planetary researchers on NASA’s Cassini mission have published a new study describing the process that drives and sustains long-lived geysers on Enceladus,...

New observations of HD 80606b raise questions about origins of so-called hot Jupiters, a class of short-period gas giants with a mass similar to Jupiter’s,...

An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Brooke Flammang from New Jersey Institute of Technology, has identified unique anatomical features in a...

Planetary researchers with NASA’s Cassini mission have identified the highest point on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. Titan’s Mithrim Montes is...