Science reveals secrets of a mummy's portrait

How much information can you get from a speck of purple pigment, no bigger than the…

Zebra finches amazing at unmasking the bird behind the song

Like humans who can instantly tell which friend or relative is calling by the timbre of…

Bodies of man and his slave unearthed from ashes at Pompeii

Skeletal remains of what are believed to have been a rich man and his male slave…

Sea-level monitoring satellite in position for liftoff

With liftoff set for today at 17:17 GMT (18:17 CET, 09:17 PST), the Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael…

Accelerator makes cross-country trek to enable laser upgrade

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has shipped the final new…

Copernicus Sentinel-6 on a roll

Copernicus Sentinel-6 on a roll Click here for original story, Copernicus Sentinel-6 on a…

The Falcon 9 rocket carrying Copernicus Sentinel-6

The Falcon 9 rocket carrying Copernicus Sentinel-6 Click here for original story, The Falcon…

Sentinel-6: 'Dog kennel' satellite to measure sea-level rise

It may look like a dog house in space, but Sentinel-6 will make the most precise…

Signs of Recent Volcanic Eruption on Mars Hint at Habitats for Life

Not thought to be volcanically active, Mars may have experienced an eruption just 53,000 years ago. …

After more than a decade, ChIP-seq may be quantitative after all

For more than a decade, scientists studying epigenetics have used a powerful method called ChIP-seq to…