Researchers believe they have identified the first-known asteroid currently orbiting the Sun to have immigrated from a neighboring star system

A new study suggests that the overrepresentation of wild animals in our everyday lives (toys, films, ads) makes us forget that they are on the verge of extinction

Mont Saint Michel Reveals New Secrets

Exceptional find of large animal sculptures in the Saudi Arabian desert dating back to the first centuries reveals artistic inclinations of local populations

The Machine that Selected the Citizens of Athens

Today’s domestic cat is a descendant of the wildcats that inhabited the Middle East during the Neolithic age, says new paleogenetic study conducted on the remains of 230 ancient animals over 10,000 years.

Calcium isotopes in fossil teeth may reveal why large marine reptiles vanished from the Earth’s oceans during the K–T mass extinction event 66 million years ago

Whistled speech—over 70 varieties still exist today worldwide—is used to convey complex sentences over large distances

Chemists have synthetized—and for the first time experimentally analyzed—a molecule based on an extremely unstable form of thulium, one of the rare earth elements known as lanthanides

New study shows brainless slime can also share 'learned' knowledge by fusion

Nero's Rotating Dining Room

Researchers believe they now know how Mars got its two small moons Phobos and Deimos

Researchers develop a device that can test biochemical reactions in 10,000 different conditions—simultaneously

Researchers develop first ever single-molecule LED: The ultimate challenge in the race to miniaturize light emitting diodes (LED) has now been met - a team has developed the first ever single-molecule LED

By tracking lead pollution in sediment, researchers were able to retrace ancient Naples' history right after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD

New study shows how dust from Africa's deserts spreads across the globe and plays an important role in climate change

Researchers put RFID tags on school children to accurately map social patterns and better model the spread of infectious diseases

A breakthrough in the mathematical understanding of Einstein's equations

Scientists have identified a cerebral marker specific to autism that can be detected by MRI and is present from the age of two years

Building solar farms above the clouds

A Battery Revolution in Motion

Lipids boost the brain: Researchers investigated effect of lipids bearing polyunsaturated chains when they are integrated into cell membranes

[.pdf] New algorithm shakes up cryptography: Researchers have solved one aspect of the discrete logarithm problem