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Oxford and Tübingen scientists have identified what they believe are the world’s oldest known musical instruments. Mammoth-, left, and bird-bone flutes...

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have discovered a rare ancient artifact that provides the earliest evidence for the existence of the...

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has taken a memorable view of a large Martian crater. Late afternoon shadows at Endeavour Crater on Mars,...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia and the Smithsonian Institution have discovered a new sensory organ in rorqual whales that coordinates...

An international team of biologists has discovered a new genus of velvet spider and named it after Lou Reed, an American rock musician and songwriter. This...

North Carolina State University researchers have developed a model of a wind-driven tumbleweed Mars rover capable of moving across rocky Martian terrain. Model...

It’s quite common for a female song sparrow to stray from her breeding partner and mate with the male next door, but a new study by an international...

A new bright yellow frog species has been discovered in the mountains of western Panama by German biologists. This is a male of the new frog species, Diasporus...

British scientists have developed a harmless, straightforward and inexpensive technique for removing gold from fossils. Image shows a 300 million year...

Australian researchers have identified a formula to understand why some branded movies go viral on YouTube. YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California...

An international team of paleontologists has found that two ink sacs from 160-million-year-old giant cephalopod fossils discovered two years ago in England...

Tel Aviv University archaeologists have discovered a collection of gold and silver jewelry, dated from around 1100 B.C., hidden in a vessel at the archaeological...

US paleontologists have uncovered fossils of three new raptor dinosaurs that roamed what is now eastern Utah about 130 million years ago. Artist’s reconstruction...

University of Sydney researchers have found that platypus colonies that live on Australia’s small islands are at high risk of disease epidemics that...

A team of astronomers has detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent...

A team of astronomers at the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii has taken a stunning image of the planetary nebula Sharpless 2-71. The complex planetary nebula...

Chinese archaeologists have unearthed a collection of 37 stone artifacts at three new localities near the Liuhuaishan, an important early Paleolithic site...

By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international team of astrophysicists has observed the active accretion phase of a supermassive...

A team of astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. Three...