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ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured a beautiful image of the Thor’s Helmet Nebula. The Thor’s Helmet Nebula, also known as NGC 2359, as...

A team of Lund University scientists has discovered that the accelerated learning of foreign languages can lead to the growth of language-related regions...

Paleontologists have discovered an extraordinarily rare fossil of a spider attacking a wasp caught in its web. This is the only fossil ever discovered...

Cambridge researchers have discovered a new population of enormous, rapidly growing supermassive black holes in the early Universe. Infrared color image...

The team of astrophysicists using NASA’s Swift satellite has discovered a rare X-ray nova in our Galaxy. According to the team, this object reveals...

A new study by scientists from the University of Southampton’s School of Mathematics explains how the spin of a pulsar slows down as the star gets older. This...

Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have detected magnesium-rich material in a dust belt around the young star Beta Pictoris. This composite...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a remarkable star that orbits the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy in only 11.5 years –...

A team of Harvard and Max Planck Institute researchers has estimated the date when Neanderthals and modern Europeans last shared ancestors to explore why...

Consumption of caffeinated coffee is associated with an increased risk of developing exfoliation glaucoma, the leading cause of secondary glaucoma worldwide,...

A professional paleontologist studying fossils in a collection at Harvard University has identified a new species of dinosaur. The newly discovered species,...

During excavations of the royal Maya city of El Perú-Waka’ in northwestern Petén, Guatemala, an international team of archaeologists has discovered...

According to a multinational team of scientists led by Dr Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo of Complutense University, Madrid, a fragment of a child’s skull...

Astronomers using the newly upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico, USA, have discovered two black holes inside an ancient...

Scientists, using data from a high-resolution spectrometer aboard ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft, have discovered a surprisingly cold layer high in Venusian...

For the first time ever, an international team of physicists has directly imaged Landau levels – the quantum levels that determine electron behavior...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4183. NGC 4183 is a spiral galaxy little smaller than the Milky...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured images of bedrock that suggest a fast-moving stream once flowed on the Martian surface. “From the size of...

An international team of entomologists has discovered a potentially dangerous new malaria-transmitting mosquito. A study, published in the journal Emerging...