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Artist's interpretation of a hypothetical moon in orbit around a planet found in a tight-knit triple-star system.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Crisp, clear images of a "hot Jupiter"...

This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the center represents the black hole’s...

Ultraviolet processing of pre-cometary ices (left) reproduces the natural evolution of interstellar ices observed in molecular clouds (right, the 'Pillars of Creation'), leading to...

Female and male Bawean warty pig -- image from camera trap.Credit:Bawean Endemics Conservation Initiative, BEKI The rare Bawean warty pig mostly forages at night in...

Although it's widely known that modern humans carry traces of Neanderthal DNA, a new international study led by researchers at the Stanford University School...

Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that higher levels of vitamin D -- specifically serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D -- are...

With obesity rates on the rise worldwide and excess sugar consumption considered a direct contributor, the search has been on for treatments to reverse...

Three-dimensional network structure of the highly porous and flexible material DUT-49 (DUT= Dresden University of Technology) which displays the NGA-effect. Credit: Image courtesy of Technische...

The desert scene of the ambush; Lawrence and the Bedouin lay in wait where the railway embankment curves around © Nicholas Saunders A bullet fired by...

Simulated structure of planet candidate 9.Credit: © Esther Linder, Christoph Mordasini, Universität Bern Astrophysicists at the University of Bern have modelled the evolution of the...

Could a slippery glob of algae hold the key to the next anti-cancer drug? According to new research into a compound produced by a...