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Scientists led by Dr Todd Katzner of West Virginia University have sequenced the genome of the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos). The golden eagle, Aquila...

Scientists using the Mast Camera aboard NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover have captured a night-sky image of two minor planets Ceres and Vesta, and one...

Genetic researchers have successfully sequenced the genome of the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans), a bloodsucking insect that transmits the parasite Trypanosoma...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered five planetary disks around young stars. This image shows a debris disk around HD...

The Alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii), long thought to be a single species, is actually three species, according to a new study published...

PS1-10afx, an unusually bright supernova that was discovered in 2010 using the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System, is so luminous because...

U.S. and Chinese paleontologists say they have unearthed the fossils of what is the oldest and most primitive pterodactyloid pterosaur. This creature lived...

U.S. researchers from the University of Missouri and the University of New Mexico have used satellite images to track the movements and demographic health...

Scientists led by Dr Yann Guiguen from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research have successfully sequenced the genome of the rainbow trout,...

A new study led by Dr Denise Risch from NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center provides conclusive evidence that mysterious ocean sounds known...

Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory have discovered, for the first time, a pair of supermassive black holes in orbit around one...

Paleontologists have described a new species of assassin fly found preserved in two pieces of 100-million-year-old Burmese amber. Burmapogon bruckschi,...

Ichthyologists have described a new genus and species of electric knifefish from the Rio Negro, the Amazonia State of Brazil. Procerusternarchus pixuna....

Scientists led by Dr Christo Buizert of Oregon State University have successfully used an innovative radiometric-Krypton-dating technique to determine...

The more massive the bulge of a galaxy, the redder the galaxy, says a team of astronomers reporting in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...

Linguistic, ecological, archaeological and genetic evidence show that the domesticated chili pepper, Capsicum annuum, originated in central-east Mexico...

A multinational group of scientists led by Dr Peter Elliott of South Australian Museum and the University of Adelaide has described a new mineral from...

Marine biologists have described a new species of beaked whale known only from seven specimens found stranded on tropical islands in the western and central...

In two separate studies, geologists led by Dr Haley Sapers from the University of Western Ontario and Dr Pete Schultz of Brown University have found floral,...