Two new species of Australian peacock spiders have been described this week by a Berkeley grad student.

Researchers from Denmark have used algae from the sea floor to examine solar activity and have found that the impact of the Sun is weaker when the Earth is cooler.

Research shows that only three small, isolated populations of emperor penguins may have survived the last ice age.

European Space Agency Rosetta mission find that the water on the the comet 67P is not similar with that of earth’s.

Space X will attempt to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating platform.

Researchers find bacteria so small that many believed that they could not exist.

The hunter-gatherer label could give the wrong impression of people who appear to have been fairly sophisticated for their era.

Using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer astronomers have been able to take detailed, 3D images of objects so distant that Hubble missed them altogether.

Rare shell jewelry, believed to have originated in the South Atlantic region suggests extensive trade routes existed in North America 1500 years ago.