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An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has studied a filament of dark matter in three dimensions for the first time. This...

In a new genetic study led by Swedish scientists, the indigenous peoples of the Argentinean part of the Andes have been found to carry a gene that accelerates...

An arachnologist from Germany has discovered a harvestman with a leg span of more than 13 inches (33 cm) during a research trip to Laos. This is a harvestman...

A team of citizen scientists and professional astronomers has discovered a circumbinary planet in a huge four-star system some 5,000 light years away. This...

European astronomers using HARPS instrument on the 3.6-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile, have discovered an exoplanet with about the...

A coral specialist from the Netherlands has reported the discovery of a new coral species that lives on the ceilings of caves in Indo-Pacific coral reefs. This...

A team of researchers from three U.S. universities has suggested that the most likely source of the water locked inside lunar soils is the constant stream...

New X-Ray observations made with ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Swift space telescopes have provided evidence for the interaction of fierce stellar winds...

According to a team of British scientists, the interaction between the region of the brain that processes sound – the auditory cortex – and...

According to an international team of paleontologists, a Cambrian fossil arthropod found in China is the earliest known fossil to show a brain. This image...

A multinational team of astronomers led by Dr Joel Kastner of Rochester Institute of Technology has captured stunning views of four planetary nebulae:...

Researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) claim that they have found the accurate spot in Rome where Julius Caesar was stabbed to death...

A team of Australian scientists has proposed a new mathematical theory to explain the mysterious phenomenon known as ball lightning. Sightings of ball...

Astronomers have discovered an unexpected spiral structure in the gas around the red giant star R Sculptoris. Observations using ALMA have revealed an...

Yale researchers have discovered that a rocky super-Earth orbiting a nearby star is a diamond planet. This illustration shows the interior of 55 Cancri...

A team of biologists led by Dr Yuen Ip of the National University of Singapore has discovered that Chinese soft-shelled turtles, Pelodiscus sinensis, effectively...

Canadian researchers have provided new evidence that gamblers interpret near-misses as frustrating losses rather than near-wins. This frustration stimulates...

Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have discovered huge amounts of water vapor in a cold pre-stellar core in the constellation of Taurus...

Mathematicians from University of Adelaide, Australia, have extended the theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light. Einstein’s...