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Researchers from North America and China determined the date and rate of Earth’s most severe mass extinction. A paper in this week’s journal Science...

The birth of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains buried beneath the vast East Antarctic Ice Sheet — a puzzle mystifying scientists since their discovery...

Using the LABOCA camera on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope on the plateau of Chajnantor in the Chilean Andes, a team of astronomers...

Geologists at MIT and Harvard University have unearthed rare, flask-shaped microfossils dating back 635 to 715 million years, representing the oldest known...

Voyager 2 has successfully switched to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft, according to a press release from NASA’s...

The extinct giant ape, Gigantopithecus blacki, is a species of large hominoids that dominated the Pleistocene of South China. Its massive mandible, large...

Japanese researchers have discovered a hitherto unknown population of coelacanths, a fish species known as a living fossil, off southeast Africa, according...

An international team of scientists has unlocked the mystery of how horses depicted in prehistoric cave paintings are lifelike in nature, using ancient...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a lost civilisation of the Sahara, in one of the harshest parts of the African desert. Researchers from the...

Space scientists investigating the composition of very distant galaxies have discovered two galaxies in the young Universe that have more heavy chemical...

Long before whales, the oceans of Earth were roamed by a very different kind of air-breathing leviathan. Snaggle-toothed ichthyosaurs larger than school...

ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has discovered an ozone layer high in the atmosphere of Venus. Comparing its properties with those of the equivalent layers...

Researchers have determined that two unusual wasps in amber found in New Jersey, USA represent a new family of wasps, according to a press release from...

Researchers from MIT and Children’s Hospital Boston have built cardiac patches studded with tiny gold wires that could be used to create pieces of tissue...

Archaeologists from the University of Southampton and the British School at Rome working at Portus have discovered a massive building at the maritime port...

Researchers found that children who are poor readers have the same brain difficulty in processing the sounds of language whether they have a high or low...

Scientists at Harvard University have created a material that repels just about any type of liquid, including blood and oil, and does so even under harsh...

A new image from ESO’s telescope reveals the Lambda Centauri Nebula, a cloud of glowing hydrogen and newborn stars in the constellation of Centaurus....

Dutch researchers revealed that the more fruits and vegetables you eat, especially white-fleshed goodies, the more you protect yourself against stroke. It...