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The well-preserved, genetically intact skeleton of a teenage girl who lived about 13,000-12,000 years ago in what is now Mexico is helping resolve a long-standing...

Botanists from the University of Calicut in Kerala, India, have described a new species in the genus Musa. Musa arunachalensis. Image credit: Sreejith...

A newly discovered extrasolar planet takes about 80,000 years to make a complete orbit around its star, GU Psc. This composite image shows the exoplanet...

Sometimes, studying past technologies leads to remarkable discoveries that can help design better materials for the future. This is the little known science...

Underwater archaeologists led by the famed treasure hunter Barry Clifford believe they have discovered remains of the Santa Maria – the flagship of Christopher...

Paleontologists from the Case Western Reserve University have discovered a fossil of a kitten-sized predator that lived in what is now Bolivia during the...

Astronomers from the United States, Russia and Australia have discovered the first true solar sibling – HD 162826. HD 162826. Image credit: sky-map.org. HD...

An international team of botanists has described a new, nickel-hyperaccumulating species of plant from Luzon Island, Philippines. Rinorea niccolifera....

Australian researchers led by Dr Timothy Bredy of the University of Queensland’s Queensland Brain Institute say they may have found a way to silence...

Entomologists have discovered 24 new species of wasps that mummify caterpillars, several were named after famous people including Jimmy Fallon, John Stewart,...

NASA’s High Definition Earth Viewing experiment (HDEV) is now live-streaming views of our planet from space captured by HD cameras. HDEV placed four...

Astronomers from the United States and China have discovered a hypervelocity star (HVS) that is the closest bright HVS and one of the three most massive...

Scientists from Alberta Geological Survey and the University of Alberta have discovered an 8 km wide bowl-shaped impact crater near Bow City in southern...

Scientists from at the Scripps Research Institute have created a living Escherichia coli that has a pair of ‘alien’ DNA building blocks in...

Astronomers led Dr Mark Vogelsberger of MIT/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have created the first realistic virtual Universe using a computer...

Entomologists from Switzerland led by Dr Rainer Neumeyer have described a new species of the wasp genus Polistes from Central Europe. The Swiss paper wasp,...

Scientists from the Universidad de La República in Uruguay have described three new species of tarantulas from northern Argentina. The newly discovered...

Paleontologists led by Dr Phil Manning of the University of Manchester have used a highly sensitive synchrotron-imaging technique to reveal ancient injuries...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of long-snouted tyrannosaur – scientifically named Qianzhousaurus sinensis and nicknamed Pinocchio...