The galaxy NGC 4536 is churning out new stars at a prodigious rate, as evidenced by new images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The images,...
Researchers in Utah have discovered a new type of sauropod dinosaur. They named the plant-eating dino Moabosaurus utahensis after the place that yielded its bones, Utah’s...
Researchers in Germany have recovered remains of a saber-toothed cat at an archaeological site in Schöningen. The fossil skull is nearly complete. The fossil remains represent...
A new study shows that a common antiparasitic medication could be effective at treating certain brain cancers including low-grade glioma. Low-grade glioma is a tumor that...
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has a sibling — or a rivalry. Astronomers at the University of Leicester have discovered a second “great spot.” Scientists dubbed the...
German researchers have developed a transgenic mouse that could be used to help scientists predict which new flu virus strains could cause a global pandemic. Influenza...
Scientists have long theorized comets delivered key ingredients for life on Earth. Scientists in Germany are currently testing the theory. Researchers at Ruhr-University Bochum are replicating...
Unprecedented coral bleaching in consecutive years has damaged two-thirds of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, aerial surveys have shown. The bleaching – or loss of algae –...
Scientists have already successfully developed pluripotent stem cells in the lab, cells which can form any type of tissue. Totipotent stem cells are the pinnacle for...
New research suggests Neptune’s transition from the inner to the outer solar system was relatively slow and steady. The clues to the nature of Neptune’s ancient...
Scientists at Macquarie University have developed a laser similar to the sci-fi superlaser used by the Death Star in Star Wars. A superlaser combines the multiple...