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Australian and U.S. astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory’s 10-m telescope in Hawaii have found a new kind...

A team of astronomers from Taiwan and the UK has discovered two unusual subdwarf stars with extremely high concentrations of lead in their atmospheres. This...

Stanford researchers claim that our most recent common ancestors, known as mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam, roughly overlapped during evolutionary...

A large international team of astronomers has used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to learn more about so-called quenched galaxies – galaxies...

Prof John Longino, an entomologist with the University of Utah, has described 33 new species of predatory ants in Central America and the Caribbean, and...

Italian paleontologists have reported the discovery of enigmatic fossils in Pleistocene shallow-marine clay deposits in central Italy. 1.75-million-year-old...

Scientists from the United States and China have identified stem cells in urine that can be directed to become multiple cell types. This image shows immunofluorescent...

Dr Peter Jäger, a spider expert with the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, has described a new species of tropical wolf spider in...

A team of researchers reporting in the journal Nature has revealed that some non-avian dinosaurs had brains that were as large or larger than that of Archaeopteryx...

Scientists led by Prof Mark Anderson from the University of Iowa have found that the enzyme CaMKII (Calcium/calmodulin-dependent kinase II), known for...

British archaeologists have unearthed an unprecedented find on Dorstone Hill, near Peterchurch in Herefordshire, England – two large 6,000-year-old halls,...

Obaid Siddiqi (January 7th, 1932 – July 26th, 2013) recently passed away after battling injuries from a road accident. Obaid Siddiqi At 81 and still...

Peruvian and U.S. ornithologists have described a new species of bird in the genus Scytalopus found on the eastern slopes of the Andes in Junin Department,...

A new way of measuring the spin in supermassive black holes, reported in a paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (full paper in...

A team of researchers from Indonesia, Taiwan and France has described a new whipray species in the family Dasyatidae. The Fine-spotted Leopard Whipray,...

Prof Trevor Lamb of the Australian National University has published a major scientific review of the origin of the vertebrate eye and vision, summarizing...

According to a new study reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the threat of infants being killed by rival males is the key...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed six transits of an exoplanet called HD 189733b, the closest...

Biologists from Madagascar and Germany led by Dr Andreas Hapke of the Johannes Gutenberg University’s Institute of Anthropology have described a new,...