Science

New Research Doubles Number of Known Dark Comets

Dark comets are small bodies with no detected coma that have significant accele...

Drinking Sweetened Beverages Significantly Increases Ca...

Scientists have investigated the associations between intake of added sugar and...

Hubble’s OPAL Program Celebrates Decade of Tracking Sol...

The OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) program obtains long-term baseline o...

98-Million-Year-Old Ichthyosaur Fossil Uncovered in New...

Paleontologists in New Zealand have discovered a partial skeleton of platyptery...

Webb Detects 138 Decameter Asteroids in Main Belt

These asteroids are as small as 10 m across, making them the smallest asteroids...

Dark Energy Camera Captures Stunning New Image of Messi...

The swirling spiral arms of Messier 83, one of the most prominent spiral galaxi...

Venus Has Never Been Habitable, New Study Suggests

Planetary researcher Tereza Constantinou and her colleagues at the University o...

Hubble Space Telescope Revisits NGC 5643

The Hubble team has released a striking new image of the central part of NGC 56...

Increased Consumption of Dark, But Not Milk, Chocolate ...

Consumption of at least five servings of dark chocolate a week (one serving is ...

New Species of Archaic Human Proposed: Homo juluensis

Homo juluensis -- a newly-erected human species that includes enigmatic Denisov...

Study: People with Higher Emotional Intelligence Use Em...

Higher emotional intelligence is linked to more emoji use with friends, while a...

Fossilized Teeth Highlight Theropod Dinosaur Diversity ...

Several groups of meat-eating dinosaurs -- tyrannosaurs, spinosaurs and members...

Clovis People’s Diet Mainly Included Mammoths and Other...

Paleoanthropologists have found that the Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) ...

Study: Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s Water Has Simi...

Contradicting the results of several recent studies, the new findings reopen th...

Newly-Discovered Gene Enhances Photosynthetic Efficienc...

Biologists have identified a new gene in California poplar trees (Populus trich...

Researchers Create Smallest Walking Robot Yet

A team of researchers at Cornell University has created a new class of magnetic...