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Using very precise ground-based observations with ESO’s New Technology Telescope (NTT), an international team of planetary scientists has found that...

An international team of researchers has unearthed a 4,600-year-old small step pyramid at the archaeological site of al-Ghonemiya near the modern town...

Marine biologists from the University of Costa Rica and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute have discovered a new coral species at a depth of about...

According to scientists from the University of Glasgow’s Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, there are only four basic emotions that we all experience. On...

A previously unknown painting by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, an Italian painter and architect better known as Raphael, has been identified by Granada University...

For the first time ever, physicists have created and photographed synthetic magnetic monopoles by engineering an environment that mimics a monopole’s...

In summer 2010, European marine biologists discovered conspicuous and mysterious ring formations in shallow waters off the Island of Møn in Denmark. Suggestions...

Researchers reporting in the Astrophysical Journal Letters have found that the majority of circumbinary planets – planets that orbit two stars –...

A new study published in the journal PLoS ONE has uncovered about 400 years of intensive land use around the ancient city of Mahendraparvata, Cambodia. Buddhist...

A multinational group of biologists has described a new species of sweeper from the waters of the Indian Ocean. Pempheris flavicycla marisrubri, Ras Mohammed,...

Paleontologists from the United States and China have described a new large plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now northwestern China during the...

In two new studies, genetic researchers have shown that about 20 percent of the Neanderthal genome survives in modern humans of non-African ancestry and...

New research explains how a bizarre species of snake scientifically called Chrysopelea paradisi can glide as much as 30 meters from trees. The Paradise...

An anomalous magma chamber has been observed at 8–11 km depth beneath the upper east rift zone of one of the world’s most active volcanoes –...

Planetary scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and European Space Astronomy have created a map of more than 100,000 asteroids throughout...

European scientists using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have learned what the weather is like on the surface of one of the objects in a binary...

A study led by Leila Deravi of Harvard University has provided new details on the adaptive camouflage of a peculiar marine animal called cuttlefish. The...

A living cold-water coral reef has been discovered by chance in the waters off southern Greenland. This image, taken at a depth of about 900 meters, shows...

The acrobatic courtship displays of male Golden-collared manakins (Manacus vitellinus) are less energetically costly than they appear, says a group of...