Above animation shows how the scientists discovered 2015 FJ345 from the images with Hyper Suprime-Cam at the Subaru Telescope. The observation took place on March 17, 2015, and the interval between the individual images is 2 hours. (Credit: Scott...
Interior view of the cave and excavation trench as of the end of the 2012 field season.
Credit: João Zilhão
Neanderthals survived at least 3,000 years longer than we thought in Southern Iberia -- what is now Spain -- long after...
A Netherlands train. Image Credit: Flickr/Sludge G
As of the first of January this year, all public transport trains in the Netherlands are being powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS said Tuesday, calling it a world first.
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Professor Ron Clarke busy excavating the Little Foot Skull from the Sterkfontein Caves.
Credit: Wits University
South Africa's status as a major cradle in the African nursery of humankind has been reinforced with today's unveiling of "Little Foot," the country's oldest,...
Researchers studied the gut-microbial composition of members of the Hadza, a hunter-gatherer population in Tanzania.
Credit: Jeff Leach
More evidence that our intestinal microbes are profoundly influenced by the foods we eat -- or don't: The gut ecosystems of...
This summary chart shows the results of an 11-year annual survey that tracks honey bee colony losses in the United States, spanning 2006-2017.
Credit: University of Maryland/Bee Informed Partnership
Beekeepers across the United States lost 33 percent of their honey bee...
A detail of a painting entitled "Judith Beheading Holofernes" is pictured during its presentation in Paris, France, April 12, 2016, that might have been painted by Italian master Caravaggio (1571-1610) and was discovered in an attic in Toulouse and...
CERN.Credit: Image courtesy of CERN
In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the ALPHA collaboration reports the first ever measurement on the optical spectrum of an antimatter atom. This achievement features technological developments that open up a completely...
A tiny treeshrew brain saps just as much of the body's energy as a human brain, researchers report. Shown in red are the blood vessels that deliver glucose to fuel cellular activities.
Credit: Image by Arianna Harrington, Duke University
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Amazon said its seasonal worker recruitment goal for 2016 represents a 20 percent jump from 2015. Image Credit: Flickr/simone_brunozzi
US online giant Amazon on Thursday announced that it plans to hire 120,000 seasonal workers to help handle an expected crush...
About 40 percent of the top selling sunscreens on Amazon.com don't meet the American Academy of Dermatology's guidelines for sunscreens. This was largely due to a lack of water or sweat resistance, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
The...
