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Researchers have found geologic evidence that casts doubt on the prevailing theory of what triggered the glaciation of Antarctica. This map shows the present-day...

Chandra X-ray observations of a remarkable planetary nebula called NGC 2392 have revealed superheated gas around the dense, hot core of the nebula. This...

Scientists at the Yale University School of Medicine have proposed an explanation for how Salmonella Typhi, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever, kills...

Pelagic thresher sharks use tail-slaps as a hunting strategy, according to a new study reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE. Thresher shark at...

Often considered ‘one of the greatest of all men of science,’ Claude Bernard (July 12, 1813 – February 10, 1878) is the father of experimental medicine. Claude...

An international team of scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope’s Imaging Spectrograph has for the first time determined the true color of an extrasolar...

Scientists using NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft have revealed a unique and unexpected structure of the downwind region of...

Israeli archaeologists have discovered what they believe is the earliest alphabetical written text ever found in Jerusalem. Jar fragment with inscription...

Biologist Dr Ruth Kiew of the Forest Research Institute Malaysia has described a beautiful new species of plant from the Peninsular Malaysia. Ridleyandra...

Australian chemists have developed a potential new antibiotic that could help in the battle against antibiotic resistant bacteria, including the methicillin-resistant...

Biologists have described a tiny new species of nematode from an oak forest in Fukushima province, Japan, and named it after the German theoretical physicist...

European astronomers, using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) in Chile’s Atacama desert, have observed the birth of a massive...

A team of archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has discovered a fragment of a sphinx statue of the pharaoh Menkaure, one of the pyramid-building...

A broad range of evidence from linguistics, genetics, paleontology, and archaeology suggests that Neanderthals and Denisovans shared with us something...

Biologists reporting in the open-access journal Zookeys have identified a diminutive new catfish species in the waters of Rio Rio Paraíba do Sul basin,...

According to new research reported in the Geophysical Research Letters, increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) over the past three decades have caused...

Researchers have proposed a radical solution to a cosmochemical mystery that has baffled scientists for over a century: how numerous small, glassy chondrules...

According to a new study conducted by marine biologists Dr Anders Garm from the University of Copenhagen and Dr Dan-Erik Nilsson from Lund University,...

Researchers from the United States and Russia analyzing microwave and magnetic-field data from solar-dedicated facilities and spacecraft have reported...