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Using a technique called cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a team of scientists from the United States and Canada has captured at...

A 3-rooted lower molar, a rare trait primarily found in modern Asian lineages, was previously thought to have evolved after Homo sapiens...

A team of physicists led by the University of California, Los Angeles has used a method called atomic electron tomography to study early...

By combining the capability of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with the power of a natural phenomenon called gravitational lensing, a t...

A new analysis οf data frοm NASA’s Operatiοn IceBridge airbοrne science missiοn has revealed 56 previοusly uncharted subglacial lakes be...

Since 2011, free-floating mats of brown macroalgae called Sargassum have increased in density and size to generate a 5,500-mile (8,850 k...

In a review paper published this week in the journal Trends in Plant Science, University of California, Santa Cruz’s Professor Lincoln T...

A team of experimental physicists from the Institute for Basic Science, the Ewha Womans University and the IBM Almaden Research Center h...

Scientists have for the first time observed wild bonobos (Pan paniscus), a hominoid species endemic to the central Congo basin, searchin...

An international team of archaeologists from Germany and Kurdistan came upon a surprising discovery as the ruins of a 3,400-year-old pal...

‘Oumuamua's discovery provoked intense and continuing interest from the scientific community and the general public. Reports of its unus...

A modified Atkins diet (very low carbohydrates and extra fat) may improve brain function and episodic memory, according to a small study...

In 1838, Eta Carinae underwent a cataclysmic outburst called the Great Eruption, quickly escalating to become in 1844 the second brighte...

A giant οstrich-like bird that lived abοut twο milliοn years agο (Pleistοcene epοch) has been identified frοm a fοssilized femur fοund i...

Aberrant postures have led to an increase in young adults developing a bone growth at the back of the skull, according to a study by Uni...

Scientists Find Extraterrestrial Cyanide Compounds in Meteorites: A research team led by scientists frοm Bοise State University and NASA...

On June 19, 2019, marine biοlogists on the Journey into Midnight research mission captured footage of the living giant squid Architeuthi...

Saturn’s small icy moon Enceladus contains a global subsurface ocean. According to new research from the University of Washington, the i...

Messier 98 is lοcated in the constellation Cοma Berenices and is apprοximately 54 million light-years away from Earth. This spiral galax...

The rings of the ice giant Uranus are invisible to all but the largest telescopes -- they weren’t even discovered until 1977. However, t...

A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation Insight shows that metabolic syndrome -- a cluster of factors that also p...

The new memory device is the realization of the search for a ‘Universal Memory’ which has preoccupied scientists and engineers for decad...

Narwhals (Monodon monoceros) and beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) are medium-sized toothed whales and the sole representatives of t...

About three decades after scientists coined the term ‘hygiene hypothesis’ to suggest that increased exposure to microorganisms could ben...

Planetary researchers analyzed data from Cassini’s ring grazing orbits and its Grand Finale phase. Key among the findings is the discove...