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A team of scientists from Germany, Austria and the United States, has found that elephants rely on the same mechanism that produces speech in humans –...

Baobab and palm trees once thrived on today’s icy coasts of Antarctica about 52 million years ago, a new study led by the Goethe University and the...

Theoretical physicists at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, are on the track of an exotic, subatomic particle, whose existence was first predicted...

An international team of astronomers operating ESO’s Very Large Telescope has released a new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1187. This image shows the...

A team of German scientists has analyzed the structure of shark teeth and human teeth. The results of their research are surprising: although the surface...

According to a team of scientists from the Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, large numbers of humpback whales are remaining in bays along the...

Giant ice avalanches discovered on Saturn’s moon Iapetus provide clue to extreme slippage elsewhere in the Solar System. When the rimwall of Iapetus’s...

An international team of scientists has substantially increased the age at which we can trace the emergence of modern culture, all thanks to the San people...

An international team of archaeologists has unearthed a beautiful and colossal human sculpture at the Tayinat Archaeological Project excavation site in...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Bonn, Germany, has discovered a tomb of a young prince at the ancient Mayan city of Uxul. A cup from the...

In a new study, geologists at the University of Texas at Austin have examined large-scale polygons on Mars and compared them to similar features on Earth’s...

A survey of the extensive fruit and seed collections from the Middle Eocene of the Messel fossil site in Germany has revealed 140 genera, representing...

A multinational team of researchers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope has discovered that almost three quarters of high-mass stars have close companions,...

Astronomers have detected the first exoplanetary system with regularly aligned orbits similar to those in our Solar System. In this artist interpretation,...

Chinese biologists have published the first photo evidence that a population of the recently discovered snub-nosed monkey, Rhinopithecus strykeri, lives...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected a very special gamma-ray pulsar. A gamma-ray pulsar...

An international team of archaeologists has uncovered the first evidence of ceramic figurative art in late Upper Paleolithic Europe – from about...

Biologists from the National University of Singapore have identified a new deep-water species of box crab. Calappa karenae (Roy Kropp / Zootaxa / Magnolia...

A large international team of researchers led by University of Adelaide, Australia, has found that women who use marijuana can more than double the risk...