The median artery of the human forearm is an example of microevolutionary changes in the internal anatomy of the human body, according to new research by...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled in stunning detail a part of the bright reflection nebula NGC 7023.
Paleontologists have found the remains of Mesopithecus pentelicus -- an extinct species of Old World monkey that lived in Europe and Asia between 7 and 5...
Black imported fire ants (Solenopsis richteri) have the remarkable ability to adapt its tool use, according to new research by scientists from USDA-ARS and Huaz...
A new genus and species of mosasaur has been identified from a 1-m- (3.3-foot-) long skull and isolated bones found in a phosphate mine in Morocco.
Renowned as the first fossil feather ever known, the 150-million-year-old isolated fossil feather found in the Jurassic limestone deposits of Solnhofen, Germany...
A young starburst galaxy named BOSS-EUVLG1 is by far the most luminous, almost un-obscured star-forming galaxy known at any redshift.
Time travel with free will is logically possible in our Universe without any paradox, according to new research from the University of Queensland.
A team of geneticists from the United States, China and Europe has sequenced the paternally inherited Y chromosomes from three Neanderthals and two Denisovans.
Solar astronomers using NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission have discovered very fast and bursty nanojets, the telltale signature of reconnection-based nanoflares resulting in coronal...