Located in the constellation of Aquarius, roughly 3.7 billion years from Earth, galaxy J2240 has…
A new study indicates that Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) are aware that others may be watching…
Paleontologists think that they may have identified the earliest known dinosaur, which was no bigger…
Underground nuclear tests can be detected in the skies and as a result, global satellite…
Made up of mostly bulk metallic glasses, a new type of micro fuel cell could…
One of the strangest moons in the Solar System is Saturn’s Iapetus, which features an…
Cocoons form to protect eggs and larvae, but they can also help preserve fossils for…
Using ESA’s infrared Herschel space observatory and spectrometers on the twin 10-meter W.M. Keck telescopes…
A 5-mile (8-kilometer) wide and 3,000-foot (900-meter) deep asteroid impact crater has been hidden near…
A new study has shown that elk become more fearful when people are around because…
Using radar data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, a new analysis of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan,…
An international team has produced a rough draft of wheat’s DNA sequence. The draft identifies…
Scallops cough to expel feces and water from their central cavities. The friction between the…
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft entered a magnetic highway for charged particles, the final region before…
Many studies suggest that the behavioral effects of alcohol in humans can be modeled in…
Researchers have discovered one of the reasons why it may seem like older people fall…
Vega is situated in the constellation Lyra, 25 light-years away from Earth, and it is…
The global population of hammerhead sharks, a group of sharks in the family Sphyrnidae, has…