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Scientists at The University of Manchester have made a surprising finding after studying how tadpoles re-grow their tails which could have big implications for research into human healing and regeneration

While living birds have a beak to manipulate their food, their fossil bird ancestors had teeth. Now a new fossil discovery shows some fossil birds evolved teeth adapted for specialized diets.

Archaeologists from the University of Southampton studying a Neolithic archaeological site in central Greece have helped unearth over 300 clay figurines, one of the highest density for such finds in south-eastern Europe

An international team of astronomers has found the largest known structure in the universe. The large quasar group (LQG) is so large that it would take a vehicle travelling at the speed of light some 4 billion years to cross it

The surface of the sun erupted in a solar flare early today (Jan. 11), unleashing a blast of super-heated plasma into space

An international collaboration including researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has discovered that Earth's core formed under more oxidizing conditions than previously proposed

The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades

In a new study, a pair of researchers has found that exomoons are just as likely to support life as exoplanets.

What if you had a "Wayback Television Set" and could watch an entire month of ancient prehistory unfold before your eyes in real time?

In an earthquake, ground motion is the result of waves emitted when the two sides of a fault move -- or slip -- rapidly past each other, with an average relative speed of about three feet per second. Not all fault segments move so quickly, however -- some