Closest planetary system hosts two rocky asteroid belts
— New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope indicate that the nearest planetary system to our own has two asteroid belts. Our own solar system has just one. The star at the... — full story
A Venus figurine from the Swabian Jura rewrites prehistory
The 2008 excavations at Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany recovered a female figurine carved from mammoth ivory from the basal Aurignacian deposit. This figurine, which is the earliest depiction of a human, and one of the oldest known examples of figurative art worldwide, was made at least 35,000 years ago. This discovery radically changes our views of the context and meaning of the earliest Palaeolithic art... — full story
Minister Daniel Valchev and Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha on a visit to the NMNHS
— 3 May 20:34 | ScienceOn 29 April 2009 NMSII Leader Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Vice-Premier and Minister of Education and Science Daniel Valchev visited the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian... — full story
Iran's ancient story preserved digitally
— 1 May 17:50 | ScienceThe Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago is using modern technology to digitally record thousands of tablets that, as they are being pieced together, tell an unusually detailed... — full story
Benjamin Franklin find: 'New' letters
— 25 Apr 12:47 | ScienceA trove of Benjamin Franklin letters has turned up in the British Library. Discovered by University of California, San Diego professor Alan Houston, the letters are copies of correspondence... — full story
Mining MIT for neurotechnical know-how
— 2 Mar 12:18 | TechnologyThe technologies that drive neuroscience research sometimes come from unexpected sources. Consider for example the 2008 Nobel prize for chemistry, awarded for the invention of fluorescent... — full story
Swift spies Comet Lulin
— 21 Feb 10:24 | ScienceWhile waiting for high-energy outbursts and cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift Gamma-ray Explorer satellite is monitoring Comet Lulin as it closes on Earth. For the first time, astronomers... — full story
Extrasolar planet with wild temperature swings observed
— 28 Jan 21:26 | ScienceNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has observed a planet that heats up to red-hot temperatures in a matter of hours before quickly cooling back down. The 'hot-headed' planet is HD 80606b,... — full story
