The University of Michigan has just announced that its alleged Galileo manuscript is actually a forgery from the 20th century. According to the library statement, the document was a real treasure in the university’s collection. However, an internal inquiry by ...

Given how vulnerable our atmosphere and climate are to solar activity, these ice cores also serve as a record of solar activity.  In a recent investigation of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team headed by Lund University ...

Recent research finds that flowers found wholly preserved in globs of amber grew at the foot of dinosaurs, implying that certain blooming plants in South Africa today have stayed unmodified for 99 million years. The two blooms flowered initially in ...

Is this a close-up of a tree stump or an orbital view of a crater? At first look, it may not be easy to tell. However, this picture of a crater on Mars supplies planetary scientists with much the same ...