While Sherlock Holmes might have stated that the absence of any evidence is evidence itself,…
Using the Planck space telescope, scientists discovered a bridge of hot gas connecting galaxy clusters…
A new study indicates that nesting birds that feed on insects that hatch in lake…
Chimpanzees and orangutans experience a mid-life crisis just like humans, according to a survey of…
Scientists at Stanford University have developed a new algorithm, known as ReFIT, that vastly improves…
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The French space agency CNES has announced that the Convection, Rotation, and Planetary Transits (CoRoT)…
Researchers have used pet dogs, with real injuries, to test a treatment that involved transplanting…
Quantum encryption systems, which encode signals into a series of single photons, have had trouble…
Using the High Contrast Instrument for the Subaru Next Generation Adaptive Optics and the Infrared…
Rappers improvising rhymes while their brains are being scanned in a functional magnetic resonance imaging…
Human medications are ending up in waterways and affecting fish and other aquatic organisms. However,…
Impoverished agricultural communities in Central Valley, California have been plagued for decades by contaminated drinking…
A Canadian man who was thought to have been in a persistent vegetative state for…
Using two filters on Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, a new image of the gigantic…
A recent expedition resulted in a new world record for deepest scientific marine drilling, 2,440…
William Whittaker has been developing roving robots for years. By 2015, he hopes that his…
500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci briefly worked on fossils, inadvertently triggering a mystery that…