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Researchers from Université de La Réunion, Réunion, have found that Barau’s petrels synchronize their migration with the full Moon when travel...

US palaeontologists have unearthed fossil bones of the biggest dinosaur to ever live in North America. The study, published this week in the journal Acta...

An international team of palaeontologists has discovered the fossilized eyes belonging to an ancient giant shrimp-like marine creature. Artist's impression...

US researchers found that Kirtland’s warblers like to live in young forests and forests that have been on fire, stated in a press release from NASA’s...

NASA scientists presented a mosaic image of Vesta’s southern hemisphere, showing different rock or mineral types, created from images obtained by...

European astronomers have obtained the best images ever of an unusual double star, where the companion star is a vampire, according to a press release...

Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our Solar system and interstellar space, stated in a press release from NASA. Data obtained from...

Russian palaeozoologists have discovered 40,000-year-old remains of a young woolly mammoth in Yakutia. Woolly Mammoth at the Royal BC Museum (Tracy O) The...

The Kepler mission has discovered the first super-Earth in the habitable zone of a distant Sun-like star, according to NASA. The newly found planet Kepler-22b...

A team of astronomers has discovered 18 Jupiter-like planets in orbit around massive stars, stated in a press release from the California Institute of...

Researchers have found that people with bad credit scores are more impatient, stated in a press release from the Association for Psychological Science. The...

Archaeologists from the Mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt have discovered unknown Coptic city dating back to the fourth century CE,...

Evolutionary biologists from University of Michigan found that paper wasps have evolved specialized face-learning abilities analogous to the system used...

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced today new proposed names for elements 114 and 116, stated in a press release from the Lawrence...

Researchers have found that parents of newborns show poorer adjustment to their new role if they believe society expects them to be perfect mothers and...

Scientists from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that the atmosphere of Earth just 500 million years after its creation was not a methane-filled...

Researchers from the University of Nottingham have found that a microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans, which is biologically very similar to the human...

Researchers from Keio University, Japan, have succeeded in creating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) from the blood of people aged 110 or older, aiming...

The Zooniverse team at Oxford University and Scientific American have launched the whale-song project, called Whale FM,  to involve curious citizen scientists....