Jan 24, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of scientists has discovered a 2-million-year-old species of fox at the site of Malapa in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage...

Jan 23, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A team of neuroscientists has created a detailed map of the brain regions that contribute to emotional intelligence, the ability to process emotional information. Prof...

Jan 23, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new far-infrared view of Betelgeuse – the nearest red supergiant star to our planet – obtained with ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory reveals...

Jan 23, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Sebastien Muller of the Chalmers University of Technology has made the most precise measurement ever of...

Jan 22, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A study led by British planetary scientists has provided evidence that auroras occur on a number of very low mass stars and brown dwarfs, collectively...

Jan 22, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Cambridge University scientists have proved the existence of four-stranded ‘quadruple helix’ DNA structures – known as G-quadruplexes – within...

Jan 22, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a new study published today in the online journal mBio, male scientists are far more likely to commit fraud than females and the fraud occurs...

Jan 21, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a new study conducted by German astronomers Dr Valeri Hambaryan and Dr Ralph Neuhauser, an intense blast of high-energy radiation that struck...

Jan 21, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array have captured a new view of a 20,000-year-old supernova remnant that resembles an endangered species...

Jan 21, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Australian astronomers have discovered how supermassive black holes grow – and it’s not what was expected. Researchers have believed that...

Jan 18, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to Dr Julien Benoit and his colleagues from the University of Science and Technology in Montpellier, France, an Eocene skull fossil discovered...

Jan 18, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A team of British researchers has discovered that some bacteria are able to change the make-up of supporting cells within the nerve system, called Schwann...

Jan 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

British scientists have made a surprising discovery after studying how tadpoles of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) and the Western clawed frog...

Jan 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of amphibian biologists led by Dr Jodi Rowley of the Australian Museum in Sydney has discovered a new species of flying frog near...

Jan 17, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr Barry Molloy, an archaeologist at the University of Sheffield, the United Kingdom, has discovered that the Minoan civilization had strong martial traditions,...

Jan 16, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Alyssa Goodman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has identified a bone-like filament in...

Jan 16, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to British researchers, the idea of creating networks of members and sharing information dates back to the 16th century. The discovery was made...

Jan 16, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Scientists at Case Western Reserve University have discovered a possible dwarf protogalaxy, and another dwarf galaxy, in the constellation Ursa Major. Sloan...

Jan 16, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer have spotted what they say is the biggest spiral galaxy ever seen. This image shows the giant...

Jan 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

German geneticists have found evidence of substantial gene flow between Indian populations and Australia about 4,230 years ago. 4,000 years ago, Australia...