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Paleontologists led by Dr Rachel Racicot of Yale University have described a new species of extinct porpoise that lived off the coast of what is now California...

Evolutionary analysis applied to North American and Siberian languages suggests that while most of the Beringia people migrated into North America, some...

Paleontologists from Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas, have discovered the fossils of a new diminutive tyrannosaur that lived in what...

An international team of scientists using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer has discovered the largest known yellow hypergiant star in our Galaxy. This...

ESA’s Venus Express orbiter has captured an image of a ‘glory’ – a rare rainbow-like optical phenomenon – in the atmosphere of Venus. This...

New research, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that the steam and heat from volcanoes may have allowed many plant...

According to a study of wild African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Kenya published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, elephants produce alarm calls...

European and Australian researchers have identified three new ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons, dubbed CFC-112, CFC-112a, CFC-113a, and one new ozone-depleting...

According to a new study led by Dr Christina Chronopoulou from the National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, the open air plays of the ancient Greeks...

A team of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have witnessed for the first time the disintegration of an asteroid. This image shows small...

A team of astrophysicists led by Dr Rubens Reis from the University of Michigan has directly measured the spin of a supermassive black hole in a quasar...

Two paleontologists from Portugal have described a new species of giant dinosaur that lived in what is today Europe during the Jurassic period, about 150...

Paleontologists and anthropologists led by Dr Kieran McNulty from the University of Minnesota have discovered definitive evidence of the widespread, dense,...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory have captured a stunning new image of the bizarre spiral galaxy ESO 137-001. This...

A team of scientists from France has discovered a new genus of giant virus in 30,000-year-old ice in the north-eastern Siberia, Russia, and managed to...

Bharat Ratna, the India’s equivalent of U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, has historically been awarded to social and political leaders, artists and...

NASA planetary scientists say they have found evidence of past water movement throughout a Martian meteorite. This SEM image shows spheroidal features...

A new image of a huge supernova discovered six weeks ago in the nearby galaxy Messier 82 has been captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. This Hubble...

Astronomers have discovered a new black hole in the nearby galaxy Messier 83, also known as M83, the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy or NGC 5236. Nearby spiral...