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An international group of astronomers using the Submillimeter Array and the Combined Array for Millimeter-Wave Astronomy has found evidence of what might...

A new study by renowned Wits University archaeologist Prof Christopher Henshilwood provides first detailed summary of South African Middle Stone Age cultural...

A team of astronomers, led by Dr Mischa Schirmer of the Gemini Observatory, using observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Gemini South...

An international team of paleontologists has identified two ancient species of mosquitoes from so-called compression fossils found in the Kishenehn Basin,...

Scientists led by Prof Sebastian Jessberger of the University of Zurich’s Brain Research Institute, Switzerland, have discovered that neural stem cells...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered what may be the world’s earliest dinosaur. According to the scientists, this creature, named...

Entomologists have described a new species of skipper butterfly from Jamaica. Troyus turneri, a new species of skipper butterfly from Jamaica (Jeff Gage...

Six years of observations of the second planet from the Sun by ESA’s Venus Express show that changes in the planet’s atmosphere could be the result...

A team of researchers at the New York University’s Langone Medical Center has discovered that two genes, called Hoxa5 and Hoxc5, play a critical role...

Biologists from the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan, have found two new species of encrusting anemones, in unexpected locations. This is Neozoanthus...

Chinese archaeologists have discovered a stunning 30,000-year-old engraved stone artifact in a collection of stone tools unearthed at the Paleolithic site...

Astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico...

The combined uranium/thorium/helium dating of minerals from the bottom of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, the United States, indicates it was largely carved...

An international team of scientists using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a jet of X-rays from a supermassive black hole about 12.4...

New data obtained with NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft have provided evidence that water ice and deposits of organic material exist near the north pole...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a black hole that could shake the foundations of current models of galaxy evolution. This Hubble image...

Analysis of skeletal remains found in an island cave in Favignana, Italy, has revealed that modern humans first settled in Sicily around the time of the...

An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has found a quasar with the most energetic outflow ever seen, at least five...

According to authors of a new study published in the journal Nature Immunology, a gene called the ariadne homolog 2 (Arih2) may hold the key to treating...