Six new genetic variants associated with type 2 diabetes in South Asians have been identified by a team of international researchers.
Writing in the journal...
A well-preserved fossil discovered in northeast China provides new information about the earliest ancestors of most of today’s mammal species.
According...
MIT researchers found that there are parts of our brain dedicated to language and only language. Findings of their research mark a major advance in the...
In the course of the ongoing archeological excavations at the Yenikapı Marmaray construction site, Turkey, the world’s best preserved shipwreck, a merchant...
A clinical trial of a potential Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) drug farmed from genetically modified (GM) tobacco plants has at long last got underway...
Researchers from Germany, France and the United Kingdom have engineered a material that exhibits a rare and versatile trait in magnetism at room temperature.
Writing...
When a male rat senses the presence of a fetching female rat, a certain region of his brain lights up with neural activity, in anticipation of romance....
The magnitude 5.8 earthquake that struck central Virginia on August 23 was a rare event, but not a surprising one. “This is an area where small earthquakes...
The CLOUD experiment at CERN has been designed to study the effect of cosmic rays on the formation of atmospheric aerosols under controlled laboratory...
NASA has selected three proposals as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space navigation and in-space propulsion...
Scientists using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with temperatures...
MIT researchers have shown that activity in a specific part of the brain, known as the parahippocampal cortex, predicts how well people will remember a...
Harvard researchers have found that practice of processing food through cooking was likely invented by human’s early ancestors more than 1.9 million...
The oldest fossil evidence for early life has been discovered in micrometre-sized pyrite crystals from the Strelley Pool Formation in Western Australia,...
Our solar system, where planets have a range of sizes and move in near-circular paths, may be rather unusual, according to a German-British team led by...
Facebook and Yahoo have joined forces to test a long-standing theory in sociology that everyone on Earth is connected together in a giant social network.
Yahoo’s...
Songo Mnara, once a thriving city off the coast of Tanzania in East Africa, has been empty and abandoned for many more centuries than it flourished. A...
Heads of Roscosmos and the European Space Agency discussed future manned mission to Mars at Air Show MAKS-2011, was announced on Wednesday, August 17,2011.
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