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For the first time, scientists have sequenced and analyzed the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of the Cameroon scaly-tail (Zenkerella insignis), one of Africa’s...

Ten trillionths of your suntan comes from beyond our Milky Way Galaxy, according to a team of astronomers led by Prof. Simon Driver from the University...

The Preface of the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex, first panel on left, and the first three pages of the Table. Image credit: University of California,...

A team of researchers at Imperial College London (ICL), UK, has found a ‘salty way’ to attack Staphylococcus aureus, an important opportunistic human...

A fossil stored in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History for several decades has been identified as a new species of ancient...

Archaeologists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, who are excavating the Bronze Age city of Hala Sultan Tekke/Dromolaxia Vizatzia on the island...

An international group of scientists led by the University of Kansas has created a detailed map that shows areas of the world most likely to see cases...

Recent findings by a team of experimental nuclear physicists in Hungary indicating the possible discovery of a new subatomic particle may be evidence of...

Venus today is an inhospitable place with surface temperatures approaching 864 degrees Fahrenheit (462 degrees Celsius) and an atmosphere 90 times as thick...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured incredible images of two small, ancient galaxies in the constellation of Pisces. According to astronomers,...

A team of scientists led by Dr. Ole Andreassen of the University of Oslo in Norway and the University of California, San Diego, has found evidence for...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the supernova remnant DEM L71, which is found in the constellation of Dorado. This Hubble image...

A team of scientists has described a new strikingly-colored species in the snake genus Geophis from the mountains of the Sierra Zongolica in west-central...

Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) live at least as long as 400 years, according to a team of marine biologists led by Dr. Julius Nielsen from...

A research team led by Dr. Christopher Adin from College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University has found that doses of bilirubin, a...

A Cornell University Professor’s recalculation of models linking a proposed 9th solar system planet to a slant in the orbital plane around our Sun could...

Two lucky tourists from Texas made an incredible archaeological discovery during a July visit to Hawaii. They found a rare series of petroglyphs on Hawaii’s...

Liquid methane-filled canyons hundreds to thousands of feet deep etch the surface of Saturn’s largest moon, according to researchers with NASA’s Cassini...

A new study published in the European Journal of Pain shows that inducing a virtual ‘out of body experience’ can significantly reduce the intensity...