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A year since the discovery of a subatomic particle set the science world aflutter, evidence is mounting it may be the elusive Higgs boson even as researchers warn the suspense is far from over.

• 02 июля 2013, 18:16

Polish and Peruvian archaeologists have discovered a royal burial chamber with 60 mummies and some 1,200 gold, silver and ceramic objects from over 1,000 years ago in Peru.

• 30 июня 2013, 15:01

A lost medieval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1,200 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser technology.

• 16 июня 2013, 11:37

Palaeontologists have made the surprising evolutionary discovery that ancient Australian fish may have had abdominal muscles, previously thought to have only developed in land animals.

• 15 июня 2013, 10:42

Kazakhstan archaeologists have discovered a beheaded human skeleton next to the tomb of the “Saka princess”.

• 06 июня 2013, 19:07

A giant lizard that lived 40 million years ago at a time when Earth was a hothouse has been named in honour of rock singer Jim Morrison.

• 05 июня 2013, 15:26

The discovery of unauthorized genetically engineered wheat growing on a farm in the US state of Oregon has cast a spotlight on agricultural biotechnology and the debate about its safety.

• 04 июня 2013, 14:57

A burial site of a high-ranking young woman was discovered during reconstruction of Taskesken-Bakty road in Urdzhar region of East-Kazakhstan oblast.

• 03 июня 2013, 15:13

Villagers installing a water pipe in southwestern Mexico stumbled onto an ancient granite statue depicting a player from a pre-Hispanic ball game.

• 21 мая 2013, 18:20

A group of Kazakhstan scientists made a discovery that may be worthy of a Nobel and other prizes.

• 08 мая 2013, 12:35

Brazilian geologists announced the discovery, 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) from Rio, of what could be part of the continent submerged when the Atlantic Ocean was formed.

• 08 мая 2013, 11:14

A letter the British scientist who co-discovered the structure of DNA wrote to his son announcing the news sold Wednesday for a record sum of just over $6 million.

• 12 апреля 2013, 10:22

Scientists Tuesday made a rare live addition to the order of primates, unveiling two new species of mouse lemur -- tiny, big-eyed animals that inhabit the forests of Madagascar.

• 26 марта 2013, 16:49

Scientists said Sunday they had discovered an unexpectedly large and active community of single-cell organisms living on the Pacific sea floor at the deepest site on Earth.

• 19 марта 2013, 11:33

Diverse underground ecosystems buried deep beneath the Earth's crust may offer clues to the origins of life on Earth, several recent studies have revealed.

• 18 марта 2013, 11:01

New data unveiled on Thursday strengthens the belief that a subatomic particle discovered last year is the elusive Higgs boson.

• 15 марта 2013, 14:06

Two promising offshore fields discovered at the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan for the first time after Kashagan field.

• 14 марта 2013, 19:08

An investigation by a US academic has uncovered 50 unpublished poems by British writer Rudyard Kipling in locations including a New York house and the papers of a former cruise-line owner.

• 27 февраля 2013, 14:13

Scientists have discovered a massive 200-kilometre (124-mile) impact zone in the Australian outback they believe was caused by an asteroid which smashed into Earth more than 300 million years ago.

• 20 февраля 2013, 13:46

Peruvian archeologists have discovered a temple believed to be about 5,000 years old at the ancient El Paraiso archeological site in a valley just north of Lima.

• 13 февраля 2013, 12:23