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Small dogs may all originate from the Middle East, according to research from the University of California. A study published in the journal BioMed Central found a gene found in small dogs, IGF1, is closely related to one found in Middle Eastern wolves. Archaeologists have found the remains of smal...

NASA PRESENTS BREAKTHROUGH DISCOVERIES ON SEA LEVEL CHANGE For the first time, scientists have the tools and expertise to measure changes in global sea level and understand the mechanisms that contribute to those changes. Scientists from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis...

Image of sunspot 12653 captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam.

One of the biggest truffles found in decades has fetched $330,000 (£165,000) at an auction held simultaneously in Macau, London and Florence. A Macau casino owner, Stanley Ho, made the record-breaking bid for the white truffle, which weighed 1.5kg. Luciano Savini and his son found the highly-pri...

A flotilla of hundreds of icebergs that split off Antarctic ice shelves is drifting toward New Zealand and could pose a risk to ships in the south Pacific Ocean, officials said Tuesday Read more

A newly discovered Mars Trojan, 2007 NS2.[spoiler] Designation (and name) Prov. Des. Ln q Q H Epoch M Peri. Node Incl. e a Opps. Ref. (5261) Eureka 1990 MB L5 1.425 1.622 16.1 20070410 268.20 95.4 245.1 20.3 0.065 1.524 10 MPO120682 (101429) 1998 VF31 L5 1.371 1.677 17.2 20070410 65.29 310.5 221.4 31...

NGC 2076 (also MCG -3-15-12, IRAS 05445-1648, and PGC 17804) is a magnitude +13.0 edge-on spiral(?) galaxy located 99 million light-years away in the constellation Lepus. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflect...

Theoretical physicists in the Netherlands have proposed a way to make superstrings in the laboratory. If their idea can be put into practice, it would allow aspects of string theory to be explored in an experiment for the first time. The new approach relies on exploiting the properties of ultr...

China's Space Day celebrations centered in Xi'an Major celebrations of China's Space Day will start on April 24 in Xi'an, capital city of northwest China's Shaanxi Province. This year's celebrations will focus on the applications of space technology in economic and social development, said Tia...

New atlas provides highest-resolution imagery of the Polar Regions seafloor The most comprehensive and high-resolution atlas of the seafloor of both Polar Regions is presented this week (Tuesday 25 April) at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU) in Vienna. Over 250 marine geol...

China, South Africa launch science park cooperation China and South Africa officially launched science park cooperation on Monday amid efforts to strengthen bilateral cooperation in science and technology. In a speech delivered at the launch ceremony, Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong noted t...

A meteor lit up the skies of Central west NSW Australia on March 15.

ATel 10320: ASASSN-17fk: Discovery of A Probable Supernova in NGC 2076

Title: Siberian Radioheliograph: First Results Author: S.V. Lesovoi (1), A.T. Altyntsev (1), A.A. Kochanov (1,2), V.V. Grechnev (1), A.V. Gubin (1), D.A. Zhdanov (1), E.F. Ivanov (1), A.M. Uralov (1), L.K. Kashapova (1,2), A.A. Kuznetsov (1), N.S. Meshalkina (1), R.A. Sych (1), ((1) Institute...

Title: Chronology and Sources of Lunar Impact Bombardment Authors: Matija Cuk The Moon has suffered intense impact bombardment ending at 3.9 Gyr ago, and this bombardment probably affected all of the inner Solar System. Basin magnetisation signatures and lunar crater size-distributions indi...