An international team of scientists led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig has completed the genome...
Dutch biologists have discovered that insects can use plants as green phones for communication with other bugs.
Ragwort plants show to act as phones that...
A new study into the biogeography of Antarctica has identified 15 distinct regions on the continent and near-shore islands.
15 Antarctic Conservation Biogeographic...
European biologists have discovered a new species of squat lobster in the underwater mountains facing the Galician coast, Spain.
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Italian scientists have proposed an explanation for the origin of mysterious ripples on stalactites.
Stalactites in the Choranche caves in the Vercors,...
A team of researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology using Kepler Telescope data from two stars in our galaxy has created sounds for a national recording...
An international consortium of universities and institutions has recently completed the first sequencing of the Asiatic pear genome.
Asiatic pear, also...
A team of scientists has shown that brain levels of serotonin, the happy hormone, are regulated by the amount of bacteria in the gut during early life.
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An international team of researchers has discovered alien-looking nanoparticles inside bubbles of glass in lunar soil.
TXM tomography reconstruction anaglyph...
The Andromeda galaxy, also known as M31, and the Triangulum galaxy, or M33, may have brushed closely billions of years ago, new observations indicate.
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An international team of researchers has discovered melt-glass material in a thin layer of sedimentary rock in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Syria....
A new DNA analysis of rocky soils in the martian-like landscape on some volcanoes in South America has revealed a handful of bacteria, fungi, and other...
A new study by a team of biologists and geochemists from GEOMAR-Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, has demonstrated that Desulfobulbus...
Scientists at the University of California in Santa Cruz have found why insects got smaller despite rising oxygen levels about 150 million years ago.
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Researchers have discovered a massive bloom of phytoplankton beneath ice-covered Arctic waters. Until now, sea ice was thought to block sunlight and limit...
An international team of astrophysicists has discovered that black holes can change between two different modes, like changing the gears of an engine.
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Fishery biologists led by Dr Roldan Muñoz of NOAA’s Beaufort Laboratory have for the first time observed headbutting contests between males of the world’s...
British scientists have developed a new technique to accurately measure the weight and size of dinosaurs and found they are not as heavy as previously...
