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Researchers from Canada, France, Germany and the United States reporting in the journal Cell have found a new ground-breaking way of killing cancer cells. Scientists...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have for the first time directly imaged a snow line at another star. This is...

Archaeologists from the Hebrew University and the Israel Antiquities Authority claim to have discovered a royal residence of the legendary King David. Palace...

Scientists have discovered a marine microbe-derived antibiotic that has the ability to kill the deadly Anthrax bacterium Bacillus anthracis and other pathogens...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Tübingen, Germany, working in the Vogelherd Cave has unearthed what appears to be a fragment of animal...

Dinosaurs were warm-blooded like mammals, not cold-blooded like reptiles as previously thought, says a biologist from the University of Adelaide, Australia. This...

According to new research by Dr Edo Berger and his colleagues at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, all Earth’s gold likely came from...

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of horned, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in Laramidia – a landmass formed when a shallow...

ESO’s Very Large Telescope has made detailed observations of a hot gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy. New...

A study published in the June issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (full paper in .pdf) provides new evidence that an ocean covered as...

Biologists led by Dr Don Arnold and Dr Richard Roberts from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, have released an astonishing picture of...

A team of archaeologists from the United States and Guatemala excavating within the ancient Maya city of El Perú-Waka’ has unearthed a carved stone...

According to an international team of researchers led by Dr Amy Bogaard from the University of Oxford, Europe’s first farmers manured and watered...

U.S. entomologists have found a strange new insect on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. Female Caurinus tlagu (Sikes DS / Stockbridge J) The...

British archaeologists have found what they say is the world’s oldest calendar, dating back to about 8,000 BC. An artist’s impression of a fire...

Dr Mark Showalter from the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, has discovered a new moon circling Neptune, the eighth and farthest planet from...

Volcanologists analyzing data on a 2009 eruption sequence at Alaska’s Redoubt Volcano have detected unusually high frequencies of a signal called harmonic...

U.S. scientists have described a new extinct family of scorpionflies from fossils found in British Columbia and Washington state, most prominently at the...

A study led by Dr Katerina Harvati from Tübingen University, Germany, suggests the small-brained Indonesian hominin was a distinct species of human, rather...