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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...

Asian black bear. Credit: © geenamp / Fotolia The Yeti or Abominable Snowman -- a mysterious, ape-like creature said to inhabit the high mountains of Asia...

Physicists at MIT and Harvard University have demonstrated a new way to manipulate quantum bits of matter. The researchers report using a system of...

Lifespans of flies and worms were extended by an average of 10% following a modest reduction in Pol III activity in adulthood. Might it...

  The first study to actually count the number of cortical neurons in the brains of a number of carnivores, including cats and dogs, has...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Researchers found when examining an individual's family that a genetic predisposition towards higher cognitive ability was associated with longer lifespan. Credit: © aeyaey / Fotolia Investigators...