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New research at the University of Leicester has identified scores of Sicilian temples built to face the rising Sun, shedding light on the practices of the Ancient Greeks.

Are ladybugs being overtaken by wasps? A type of wasp present in Quebec forces ladybugs to carry their larvae by laying their eggs on the ladybug's body, a common practice in the insect world, yet they don't kill their host.

A new study provides "incontrovertible evidence" that the volcanic super-eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter, researchers report.

New research adds to the growing body of evidence suggesting the Red Planet once had an ocean.

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing.

Solar wind generated by the sun is probably driven by a process involving powerful magnetic fields, according to a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers based on the latest observations from the Hinode satellite.

Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals began their precipitous slide to extinction.

A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists.

A new technique using near-infrared images, obtained with ESO's 3.58-metre New Technology Telescope (NTT), allows astronomers to see through the opaque dust lanes of the giant cannibal galaxy Centaurus A.

Particle beams are once again zooming around the world's most powerful particle accelerator -- the Large Hadron Collider.