A pendant some 25,000 years old has been found in the Irikaitz dig in northern Spain’s Basque region by archaeologists from the Sociedad Aranzadi. The piece, an oblong gray smooth stone some 10 centimeters (4 inches) in length, is perforated at one end and apparently was hung from a thong or cord around a person’s neck, according to the director of the excavation, Alvaro Arrizabalaga,... 

The quantity of airlines in Russia must be cut considerably, whereas the training of pilots should be controlled strictly, Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev stated. On September 8, the president visited the crash site of the Yak-42 plane in Yaroslavl, which claimed the lives of 43 people – Lokomotiv hockey players and the crewmembers. Afterwards, Medvedev conducted a special meeting, in which he... 

NASA's GRAIL-A lunar probe is lifted from its workstand and across the clean room towards the spacecraft adapter ring (L) where GRAIL-B is already secured at the Astrotech Space Operation in Titusville, Florida. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has delayed the launch of its moon probes due to a technical issue with the satellites’ launch vehicle. The agency’s... 

Astrophysicists of Germany, France and Italy have discovered a very old star in the constellation of Leo, whose existence is a complete mystery to them. SDSS J102915 +172927, unlike other stars of the “same age” that appeared immediately after the Big Bang, has a smaller mass, which does not fit into the framework of the modern theory of star formation. The age of the star SDSS J102915... 

A former US government scientist pleaded guilty on Wednesday to attempted espionage for passing top-secret national defence information to an undercover FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer. The plea deal calls for Stewart Nozette, 54, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, to receive a sentence of 13 years in prison. The judge said at the hearing that he would accept the guilty plea and would impose... 

A new study has revealed that dolphins use tissue vibrations to talk to each other, a process very similar to the way humans communicate. Scientists found that whistle like sounds of dolphins are produced by tissue vibrations analogous to the operation of vocal folds by humans and some other land-based animals, MSNBC reported. “When we or animals are whistling, the tune is defined by the resonance... 

As the coldest summer in Britain for 18 years draws to a close, a new study by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has again pointed to the conclusion that the Sun’s cosmic rays, and their role in cloud formation, rather than man-made emissions, are responsible for the Earth’s changing temperatures. Climate realist and author Lawrence Solomon explains the results of CERN’s... 

The discovery marks the first time such a large body of water has found in the planet’s deep mantle. The finding, made by Michael Wysession, a seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis, and his former graduate student Jesse Lawrence, now at the University of California, San Diego, will be detailed in a forthcoming monograph to be published by the American Geophysical Union. Looking down... 

A photo of the Milky Way galaxy Scientists at the University of Zurich in Switzerland say they have created the world’s first realistic simulation of the formation of the Milky Way. Astrophysicists from the University of Zurich working with astronomers at the University of California maintain that their recent video simulation of the Milky Way shows the creation of our galaxy less than a million... 

Scientists say they have devised a way of using graphene, the thinnest material in the world, for a very speed exchange of data on the Internet. British scientists, including last year’s Nobel Prize-winning scientists Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, believe that with the new method they can capture and convert more light than before, paving the way for advances in high-speed Internet and other... 

Eight of the largest metropolitan regions in America have seen a decline in the percentage of white inhabitants over the last decade, signaling a majority of minorities in some of the USA’s biggest hubs, including New York and DC. New census data analyzed by the Washington Post reveal that non-Hispanic whites are now a minority in 22 of the 100 biggest urban areas in America. While metropolises... 

King's College London scientists are trying to use coral's natural defense against the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays to make a sunscreen pill. King’s College London scientists are trying to use coral’s natural defense against the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays to make a sunscreen pill. The team, who studied samples of the endangered Acropora coral in Australia’s... 

Twinkle, twinkle little star: The diamond planet - the shrunken core of a once-huge star - is a chunk of crystallised carbon measuring 40,000 miles across, five times the diameter of Earth. It is certainly what you could call a gem of a discovery. Astronomers believe they have found an entire planet made of diamonds. Scientists at the University of Manchester think they have unearthed a once-massive... 

Frail: Steve Jobs is helped into a car by a friend outside his home in California. Looking gaunt and frail, this is Steve Jobs seen for the first time since his surprise departure from Apple last week. This picture, taken outside the technology mogul’s California home, fuelled fears that Jobs was nearing the end in his eight-year battle with pancreatic cancer. The 56-year-old Apple founder looked... 

Berkeley scientists this week discovered a new supernova, closer to Earth than any seen in the last 40 years, and believe they’ve spotted it within hours of its explosion. Astronomers are now scrambling to observe it with as many telescopes as possible, including the Hubble Space Telescope, and it’s likely to remain a major target for research for the next decade or more. Dubbed PTF 11kly,...