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A horse is a horse, of course, of course — except when it isn’t
Two skulls of the new genus Haringtonhippus from Nevada (upper) and Texas (lower).
Credit: Photos by Eric Scott
An international team of researchers has discovered a...
Sea-level rise predicted to threaten more than 13,000 archaeological sites in southeastern US
Tens of thousands of known archaeological sites are threatened by sea level rise in the southeast, and far more currently unknown and unrecorded.
Credit: Anderson...
Abominable Snowman? Nope: Study ties DNA samples from purported Yetis to Asian bears
Asian black bear.
Credit: © geenamp / Fotolia
The Yeti or Abominable Snowman -- a mysterious, ape-like creature said to inhabit the high mountains of Asia...
Big step forward for quantum computing
Physicists at MIT and Harvard University have demonstrated a new way to manipulate quantum bits of matter. The researchers report using a system of...
Lifespan prolonged by inhibiting common enzyme
Lifespans of flies and worms were extended by an average of 10% following a modest reduction in Pol III activity in adulthood. Might it...
Sorry, Grumpy Cat: Study finds dogs are brainier than cats
The first study to actually count the number of cortical neurons in the brains of a number of carnivores, including cats and dogs, has...
How Himalayan rivers influenced ancient Indus civilization settlements
Remnant of a street in the urban centre of Kalibangan. The Ghaggar-Hakra palaeochannel can be seen in the distance.
Credit: S. Gupta (Imperial College London)
The...
New 3-D technique uses water and robotics to reconstruct complex objects
3-D scanning using a dip scanner: The object is dipped in a bath of water (left) by a robot arm. The quality of the...
Solar eruptions could electrify Martian moons
Image of Phobos, the larger of Mars' two moons.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Powerful solar eruptions could electrically charge areas of the Martian moon Phobos to...
Wobbling galaxies: New evidence for dark matter makes it even more exotic
Abell S1063, a galaxy cluster, was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope as part of the Frontier Fields programme. The huge mass of...
On the origins of star stuff: Shedding new light on origin of anti-matter
The HAWC Observatory sits at an elevation of 13,500 feet, flanking the Sierra Negra volcano inside Pico de Orizaba National Park in the Mexican...
