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Thursday, 2 April 2015
A new model could explain how giant gas planets like Jupiter can exist.
Friday, 16 May 2014
A superbly preserved skeleton found in an underwater Mexican cave is that of a teenage girl that lived around 13,000 years ago, an analysis of her remains has revealed.
Monday, 24 March 2014
Nasty skull fractures are a sign Mayan armies engaged in open warfare with weapons that included spiked clubs, new research suggests.
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Pathogens may become more virulent as they spread from one area to the next, say the authors of a new study of the frog-killing chytrid fungus.
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Urban birds are incorporating cigarette butts into their nests for bug-killing action and for insulation, a new study finds.
Friday, 24 February 2012
The collapse of the Mayan civilisation was likely due to a relatively mild drought.
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Ancient cave painters who drew spotted horses were depicting what they saw around them and were not, as often believed, being abstract or symbolic, suggests a new study.
Thursday, 20 October 2011
A new study claims life on Earth was almost wiped out by a comet in 1883.
Monday, 29 August 2011
Microbes inside rocks blasted from Earth could survive long enough to reach other places in the solar system, say scientists.
Friday, 4 March 2011
Tiny grains of dust are providing the earliest glimpse of the primordial solar system before Earth was born.
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Whales are showing signs of acute sun damage that researchers believe is due to rising levels of ultra violet radiation.
Friday, 28 May 2010
Scientists think they may have solved one of the great mysteries of the Solar System: why the winds on Venus blow faster than the planet's rotation?
Friday, 14 May 2010
Global warming could kill off as many as a fifth of the world's lizards by 2080, with potentially devastating consequences for ecosystems around the world, according to a new study.
Friday, 5 March 2010
A new study strengthens the claim that an asteroid impact ended the reign of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Meteorologists may be overestimating rainfall, according to a new study that shows small raindrops can fall faster than previously thought.