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An international team of astronomers combining data from the Japan-led Suzaku satellite, the ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory...

Librarians at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, have discovered a previously unknown variant of the famous map of the world printed...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of Herbig-Haro 110, a geyser of hot gas flowing from a newborn star. Hubble...

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) and the ATLAS experiments at CERN presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs boson...

European scientists have discovered a 100 km-wide crater, the result of a massive asteroid or comet impact a billion years before any other known collision...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of feathered dinosaur in southern Germany. Skeleton of Sciurumimus on a limestone...

An international team of archaeologists has discovered a 1,300 year-old Maya text that provides only the second known reference to the so-called “end...

Israeli archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a monumental synagogue building dating to the Late Roman period at the archaeological site of Huqoq...

A team of researchers from the University of Alberta and the Universidad de la República in Uruguay has uncovered physical proof that animals existed...

An international team of astronomers using three different telescopes – NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton in space,...

Spanish archaeologists have unearthed the most ancient Neolithic bow found to date in Europe at the lake site of La Draga. The bow discovered at the Neolithic...

A new study of lake sediment cores from Sanak Island in the western Gulf of Alaska has suggested that deglaciation there from the last Ice Age took place...

A new fish fossil from the lower Eocene found by Oxford University researcher Dr Matt Friedman has revealed why flatfishes have one of the most unusual...

Melanin – the pigment that colors skin, eyes and hair – could soon be the face of a new generation of bio-friendly electronic devices used in applications...

Researchers have finished counting, outlining and cataloging a staggering 635,000 impact craters on Mars that are roughly a kilometer or more in diameter. Mars:...

A team of European scientists working with Bartonella bacteria has identified a new mechanism of bacterial pathogenesis. Bartonella bacterium (Ceshencam) Bacteria...

Scientists have for the first time determined the mass of a non-transiting extra-solar planet. Artist's impression of Tau Boötis b looking at its...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a puzzling arc of light behind an extremely massive cluster...

NASA scientists have announced that Voyager 1 probe is nearing the very edge of the Solar system. Photograph of one of the two identical Voyager space...