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The Hubble team has released a new image of NGC 5806, a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. The image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5806...

Archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority have unearthed 9,500-year-old figurines of a ram and a wild bovine at the Tel Moza archaeological site,...

A collaboration between a computer scientist and a biologist has revealed that a species of harvester ants determine how many foragers to send out of the...

Australian scientists have suggested that a protein called Grb10 plays a crucial role in increasing muscle mass during development. Structure of the GRB10...

An international team of researchers has discovered an ultra-luminous supernova in a distant galaxy some 9.5 billion light-years away and used it as a...

Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to produce a new X-ray image of NGC 1929, a star cluster embedded in the N44 nebula, which...

San Diego Zoo Global researchers, collaborating with Chinese scientists, have discovered that pandas make clear and specific choices about what trees are...

A new study, led by Dr Mohammad Boskabady of the Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran, has revealed that water pipe smoking affects lung function...

Astronomers using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer have discovered millions of supermassive black hole candidates across the Universe and...

According to an international team of paleontologists, a 9.7-meter-long mortichnia of a horseshoe crab unearthed at a famous fossil locality in Germany...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array have detected molecules of glycolaldehyde – a simple form of sugar – in...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has discovered the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system. Artist’s...

One fly and two mites found in droplets of amber from northeastern Italy are about 100 million years older than any other amber arthropod – invertebrate...

Biologists at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole have explained how longfin inshore squid,...

An international team of researchers, led by Brazilian biologist Dr Angela Sanseverino, has presented a study that shows methane from lakebeds to be present...

A team of theoretical physicists at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University has proposed that the start of the Universe should be modeled not as...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of one of the iconic Galapagos finches – the Medium Ground-finch. Galapagos Medium Ground-finch (© Petr Baum /...

An innovative computational approach applied by an international team of linguists sheds new light on the origins of Indo-European languages. Map shows...

A study by Japanese scientists shows that singing gibbons use the same vocal techniques as soprano singers. A pair of white-handed gibbons (Matthias Kabel...