A collaboration between a computer scientist and a biologist has revealed that a species of harvester ants determine how many foragers to send out of the...
Australian scientists have suggested that a protein called Grb10 plays a crucial role in increasing muscle mass during development.
Structure of the GRB10...
An international team of researchers has discovered an ultra-luminous supernova in a distant galaxy some 9.5 billion light-years away and used it as a...
San Diego Zoo Global researchers, collaborating with Chinese scientists, have discovered that pandas make clear and specific choices about what trees are...
A new study, led by Dr Mohammad Boskabady of the Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran, has revealed that water pipe smoking affects lung function...
According to an international team of paleontologists, a 9.7-meter-long mortichnia of a horseshoe crab unearthed at a famous fossil locality in Germany...
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has discovered the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system.
Artist’s...
One fly and two mites found in droplets of amber from northeastern Italy are about 100 million years older than any other amber arthropod – invertebrate...
Biologists at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole have explained how longfin inshore squid,...
An international team of researchers, led by Brazilian biologist Dr Angela Sanseverino, has presented a study that shows methane from lakebeds to be present...
A team of theoretical physicists at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University has proposed that the start of the Universe should be modeled not as...
An innovative computational approach applied by an international team of linguists sheds new light on the origins of Indo-European languages.
Map shows...
A study by Japanese scientists shows that singing gibbons use the same vocal techniques as soprano singers.
A pair of white-handed gibbons (Matthias Kabel...
University of Toronto graduate student Martin Smith has for the first time reconstructed mouthparts of two mollusk-like animals Odontogriphus and Wiwaxia...
An international group of astronomers has announced the discovery of two groups of galaxies that are just like ours.
Image shows one of the two ‘exact...
An expedition to the mountains of the NZ South Island has added two species of forget-me-nots to the flora of the island country.
Myosotis chaffeyorum...
