Mar 21, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A team of scientists from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Dresden and De La Salle University in Manila has discovered four new species of the freshwater...

Mar 21, 2012 by News Staff

ESO’s VISTA telescope has created the widest deep view of the sky ever made using infrared light. A section of the widest deep view of the sky ever...

Mar 21, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has found that most of Madagascar’s unique present-day fauna may originally have arrived across long distances...

Mar 20, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has discovered a rare square galaxy with a striking resemblance to an emerald cut diamond within a group of 250 galaxies...

Mar 20, 2012 by James Freeman

A team of scientists from Monash University and the University of Bristol has found that the tiny teeth of a long-extinct prehistoric fish are the sharpest...

Mar 20, 2012 by News Staff

A team of scientists has produced the first complete global geologic map of the Jovian satellite. Geologic Map of Io (USGS / ASU) The map, published by...

Mar 19, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers has found a new species of leopard frog that for years biologists mistook for a more widespread variety of leopard frog. The newly...

Mar 19, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has discovered that house mice accompanied Vikings during their invasions in the 10th century. Mus musculus (Josef...

Mar 16, 2012 by News Staff

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the centre of the galaxy. Hubble...

Mar 16, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered several galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational...

Mar 15, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has found that rodent-like creatures called multituberculates flourished during the last 20 million years of the dinosaurs’...

Mar 14, 2012 by James Freeman

An international team of researchers has discovered fossils of a previously unknown Stone Age people in southwest China. An artist's reconstruction...

Mar 14, 2012 by News Staff

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has returned new close-up images of Saturn’s second largest moon, Rhea. Saturn's moon Rhea (NASA / JPL-Caltech...

Mar 14, 2012 by News Staff

Performing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the eyes and brains of 27 astronauts who have spent prolonged periods of time in space, a team of researchers...

Mar 13, 2012 by James Freeman

A team of paleontologists has identified two new species of horned dinosaurs, known from fossils found in Alberta, Canada. Unescoceratops koppelhusae (upper...

Mar 12, 2012 by News Staff

A team of researchers has discovered that plumage of Microraptor, a pigeon-sized dinosaur that lived about 120 million years ago, was iridescent with a...

Mar 9, 2012 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the Catholic University of Brasilia, A Coruña University in Spain and the James Cook University in Australia has found that...

Mar 8, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of researchers has found that cuttlefish have the most acute polarization vision yet found in any animal by showing them movies on...

Mar 7, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has found that extraordinary large loops of matter around the galaxy NGC 5907 are the relic of a gigantic collision...

Mar 6, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Jes Gitz Holler, a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen, has discovered a new compound that targets a particular resistance mechanism in yellow...