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Nearly 30 percent of 1,478 known cactus species are on the verge of extinction, according to a new report published yesterday in the journal Nature Plants. Cacti...

Dr Jake Esselstyn of Louisiana State University and his colleagues from Indonesia and Australia have discovered a new genus and species of shrew rat in...

A team of astronomers from Chile, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, has found a new, highly accurate way to measure the mass of young pulsars. This...

In 1986, after a catastrophic nuclear accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union released radioactive particles into the environment,...

The Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission, a joint ESA-NASA cooperative project, will be the first space experiment to investigate...

This new image of a mid-level solar flare was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) at 8:13 p.m. EDT on October 1, 2015. The image is a...

An international team of paleontologists has found a specimen of a previously unknown species of mammal from the early Paleocene, about 65 million years...

A team of geologists from Japan, the United States and Europe has found evidence that the sudden collapse of Fogo volcano – one of the tallest and...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the planetary nebula Menzel 2, which is found in the southern constellation Norma. This composite...

NASA scientists want to send small, low-cost space probes to study Venus, near-Earth objects, 16 Psyche and other asteroids. Artist’s concept of NASA’s...

Cancer risk has been found to increase with height in both genders, says a large, long-term study from Sweden. The large-scale study discovers link between...

A new species – and genus – of armored jawless fish has come to light in the Chinese rocks dating to the Pragian stage of Devonian. An artist’s...

An international team of scientists from India and the United States has uncovered evidence that a massive comet or asteroid impact on Earth 66 million...

In 2013, a rare and beautiful variety of orchid appeared in cultivation under the commercial trade name ‘Big Pink.’ Now, research by Dutch and Australian...

This high-resolution ‘extended color’ view of the Pluto-facing hemisphere of Charon – taken by New Horizons’ Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging...

Mealworms, which are the larvae of the darkling beetle (Tenebrio molitor), can subsist on a diet of Styrofoam and other forms of polystyrene, according...

An international group of researchers has identified genes that disable HIV-1, suggesting a promising new strategy for battling the virus that causes AIDS. HIV-1...

A team of European planetary scientists has found direct evidence of melting and significant flows of liquid water beneath a degraded glacier in the southern...

A multi-colored mosaic map that outlines the ancient Egyptian city of Chortaso (also known as Qartassa or Kartasa) has been uncovered in Kiryat Gat in...