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Aug 15, 2017 by News Staff

A team of geoscientists from the University of Edinburgh, UK, has discovered an extensive volcanic range beneath West Antarctica’s massive ice sheet. Location map of subglacial volcanoes identified by van Wyk de Vries et al across the West Antarctic Rift System. Image credit: van Wyk de Vries et al, doi: 10.1144/SP461.7. The identified volcanoes range in height between 330 and 12,630 feet (100-3,850 m), with an average relief of 2,037 feet (621...

Aug 14, 2017 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the dwarf spiral galaxy IC 1727. This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the...

Aug 14, 2017 by News Staff

New excavations of a cave site in western Sumatra called Lida Ajer indicate modern humans reached Southeast Asia between 73,000 to 63,000 years ago —...

Aug 14, 2017 by News Staff

A newly discovered species of fruit bat — previously nicknamed ‘Yoda bat’ — has an official name: the happy tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene...

Aug 14, 2017 by News Staff

A beautifully carved head and upper torso of a female figure have been found within a monumental gate complex near the upper citadel of Kunulua, the capital...

Aug 14, 2017 by News Staff

A research team says the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system — a compact system of at least seven exoplanets with sizes similar to Earth — formed between...

Aug 12, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has identified a new teleosaur and named it after Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister, frontman of the band Motörhead. A...

Aug 11, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of planetary researchers from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and Jilin University, China, has used computer simulations to attempt...

Aug 11, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the Museo Egidio Feruglio in Argentina have discovered and described a new supermassive titanosaur species. At about 122 feet (37...

Aug 11, 2017 by News Staff

Dinosaurs that roamed what is now China some 160 million years ago had two ‘flying’ neighbors — strange creatures with long limbs, long hand,...

Aug 10, 2017 by News Staff

A well-preserved 106-year-old fruit cake has been found in a hut on Cape Adare, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. The Huntley and Palmer’s fruit cake...

Aug 10, 2017 by News Staff

ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal Observatory in Chile has snapped an amazing new photo of NGC 7098, a spiral galaxy with numerous sets of...

Aug 10, 2017 by News Staff

A multinational group of astronomers has detected four possible alien worlds circling tau Ceti, which is less than 12 light-years from our Solar System. Artist’s...

Aug 10, 2017 by News Staff

A petroglyph on the south face of Piedra del Sol, a free-standing rock in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon, may depict the solar corona observed during the...

Aug 10, 2017 by News Staff

According to new research published in the journal NeuroReport, a month before they are born, fetuses can distinguish between someone speaking to them...

Aug 9, 2017 by News Staff

Paleontologists have announced the discovery of two new troodontid dinosaur species, Latenivenatrix mcmasterae and Stenonychosaurus inequalis, based on...

Aug 9, 2017 by News Staff

Plants and the meat of mammoths, red deer and horses were a major part of the diet of anatomically modern humans who lived in what is now Crimea, Ukraine,...

Aug 9, 2017 by News Staff

A trio of astronomers at the University of California, Irvine, claims that stellar-remnant black holes, which result from the collapse of massive stars...

Aug 8, 2017 by News Staff

In the largest functional brain imaging study to date, researchers have identified specific differences between the brains of females and males. 3D surface...

Aug 8, 2017 by News Staff

An international group of physicists and engineers, led by Professor Zenghu Chang of the University of Central Florida, has produced the shortest-ever...