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Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a team of scientists have discovered a band of…
The 2012 Move an Asteroid Technical Paper Competition winner, Sung Wook Paek, a graduate student…
This new image from Hubble shows Abell 2261, a giant elliptical galaxy located about three…
In the 15th century, the population of the city-state Xaltocan, part of the Otomí, vanished…
Tyrannosaurus rex bite marks have been found on the fossilized bones of Triceratops horridus, but…
Exercising regularly in old age may stop the human brain from shrinking and showing signs…
Algebraists are promising to improve wireless bandwidth by an order of magnitude, not by adding…
A team of astronomers reanalyzed data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to further examine whether…
New technology that would allow genetic material to shuffle between unfertilized eggs is ready to…
An assembly of thousands of nano-machines has been put together to produce a coordinated contraction…
Data from NASA and NOAA satellites show that the average area covered by the Antarctic…
Humans have evolved an ability to recognize faces, and this ability is so important that…
U.S. Federal health agencies have started to tighten security surrounding the research on deadly pathogens.…
Last July, a chartered fishing boat strewed 100 tonnes of iron sulfate into the ocean,…
These images showcase the fine-scale structure of the atmosphere of Uranus, and contain vastly more…
A new study has calculated the energetic cost of growing a bigger brain. If humans…
Using phase contrast tomography to X-ray a human breast from multiple angles and by then…