Researchers from Canada and the United Kingdom have found that water pouring into of a mine could be as much as 2.6 billion years old and may even support life.
Read More »Chris Hadfield has first press conference since landing back on terra firma
In his first press conference since he landed back on terra firma, Chris Hadfield told journalists about life after spending five months in space.
Read More »Earliest Maya ceremonial and monumental structures found in Guatemala
A hand carved tunnel and other excavations at the settlement of Ceibal in Guatemala, have helped an international team of researchers identify the earliest ceremonial and monumental structures.
Read More »New dog-sized pachycephalosaur unearthed in southern Alberta
A team of researchers from Canada and the United States have unearthed the oldest pachycephalosaur fossil in North America – maybe even the world – and said its existence hints that other dinosaurs may also have had dog-sized versions.
Read More »Maya carving helps re-sync European and Maya calendars
A Maya carving has helped an international team of researchers to re-sync the European and Maya calendars and helps show that climate change played a role in the civilization’s collapse.
Read More »Hepatitis A virus fashions cloak-like envelope from infected cell’s membrane
The Hepatitis A virus may hijack an infected cell’s shipping machinery to fashion a cloak-like envelope. The finding shatters decades old dogma about viruses and may explain how HAV evades our immune system’s first responders
Read More »Gas giant’s atmospheric barcode analyzed by researchers
Using the Keck-2 telescope, researchers have obtained high-resolution images of a jupiter-like planet’s atmospheric barcode and said it hints at how the planet – known technically as HR 8799c – was molded.
Read More »Giant camel fossil unearthed in High Arctic
The collagen fingerprint preserved in a leg bone from Canada’s High Arctic has been connected to a giant camel that lived there roughly three-and-a-half million years ago.
Read More »Mother to largest branch of mammals described by researchers
The first branch from the tree of life has been placed online by an international team of researchers and used to describe the mother to them all
Read More »Anonymous DNA donors identified by researchers
Using a program called lobSTR, researchers extracted individual, genetic fingerprints from an online database and compared them to gene-based genealogy sites, social media and other online tools, to find their match.
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