NASA's Voyager 2 became the first and only spacecraft to visit Neptune in August 1989, revealing enormous storms, winds ...

A particular pitch-dark zone of sea floor is home to more than a trillion nodules, potato-sized lumps that have built up ...

A new look at the genes of Jonathan, who is considered to be the world’s oldest known land animal, reveals interesting ...

Scientists have discovered that the universe's fundamental physical constants may be finely balanced to make life possible. Even tiny changes to these constants could make liquids too thick or too ...

Newswise — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has a long-running tradition of innovation in computational approaches to materials science. In 1964, Argonne scientist ...

Scientists analyzing an ancient fossil embedded in the same limestone used to build the Sphinx of Giza have made a staggering discovery. The international research team examined the ...

A scrappy science project led to a significant discovery: two new species of a rare organism that could elucidate a fundamental transition in the history of life on our planet.

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When we think of the plague (also known by its equally hardcore name, the Black Death), we think of it wiping out a huge chunk of Europe in the 14th century, seemingly out of nowhere. But according to ...

Last week, several news outlets reported that a new penguin species had been discovered on the Kerguelen Islands, one of the most remote places on Earth. For instance, BBC Wildlif ...

Nieuw onderzoek heeft aangetoond dat een 2.800 jaar oud paleis ”heel goed de afmetingen van een wolkenkrabber kan hebben bereikt.” ...