The United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system. It is tau Boo b, an exotic planet classified as "hot Jupiter", which orbits very close to its star tau Bootis and is about 50 light years from Earth. The work has been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
A team of scientists from the University of Utah and the Carnegie and Smithsonian museums of natural history have described a new species of dinosaur that looks like a mixture of a large chicken and a reptile. The discovery of this new species that has been baptized as Anzu wyliei or "chicken from hell", has been published in the magazine Plos One.
Archaeologists from the University of the Basque Country have seen that the Neanderthals who took refuge in the caves of Lezetxiki, Lezetxiki II and Astigarragako Kobea
We have already discovered that dogs know how we feel due to the voice area of the brain, which functions in a similar way to humans. Now, a team of researchers from Emory University (USA) has discovered that an area of the canine brain associated with reward responds more strongly to the smells of human beings that are familiar to them than to the smells of other beings humans.
A new study led by a team of researchers from Ohio State University (USA) shows how some people may be predisposed to be worse or better in a subject such as mathematics due to certain genetic factors.
Using cameras aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) space probe, a team of NASA scientists has created the largest high-resolution mosaic of the Moon's north pole.
On Titan, Saturn's moon and the second largest planetary satellite in the Solar System, there are possibly waves too. The Earth, then, would not be the only place where this phenomenon occurs.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
