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A large multinational team of researchers has documented very high levels of molecular chlorine – as high as 400 parts per trillion – in the...

According to a group of biologists at the University of Manitoba, black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) test the alertness of their neighbors...

A team of astronomers led by Dr Stephen Kane of San Francisco State University has discovered a new giant extrasolar planet circling the nearby G5 star...

NASA astronomers used both the Wide Field Camera 3 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the Hubble Space Telescope to capture the best-ever image...

A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE suggests a mural excavated at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Anatolia, Turkey, may be based...

Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that lived in East Africa between 2.3 and 1.2 million years ago, mainly ate tiger-nuts – edible bulbous tubers...

In a large-scale lab and field study, a multinational team of researchers has revealed the origins of huge underwater waves. This satellite image shows...

According to paleontologists from the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan, long-extinct Bandringa sharks migrated downstream from freshwater...

A new study published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE has found that great white sharks live significantly longer than previously though. The great...

An international team of astronomers has used the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to collect a detailed image of the barred...

A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, confirms close relationship of Ardipithecus ramidus – a species of...

Scientists led by Lauren Palladino and Dr Kelly Holley-Bockelmann from Vanderbilt University have identified a new class of hypervelocity stars (HVSs)...

A large group of genetic scientists has sequenced and analyzed the complete genome of the elephant shark (Callorhinchus milii). The elephant shark, Callorhinchus...

Fossilized skin pigments from an 85 million-year-old mosasaur, a 193 million-year-old ichthyosaur and a 55 million-year-old leatherback turtle have revealed...

A newly discovered genus and species of primitive carnivorous animal that lived in what is now Europe roughly 55 million years ago sheds light on the origins...

An unusual stellar object named ROXs 42Bb may represent a new kind of planets or it may be a very rare planet-mass brown dwarf, according to a group of...

Astronomers, led by Dr David Kipping of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have discovered two new extrasolar planets circling a dim, red...

An international team of paleontologists has reported the important discovery of a new fossil species in the cockroach genus Ectobius. The Dusky cockroach...

An international team of astronomers, reporting in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org), used the magnification power of the massive cluster of galaxies...