Feb 28, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using data from the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array and ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray satellites has been able...

Feb 28, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists has solved some of the mysteries surrounding large spiral fossils of an ancient fish called Helicoprion. Outdated...

Feb 28, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new research led by Dr Kimberley Seed from the Tufts University School of Medicine provides the first evidence that bacteriophages – viruses that...

Feb 28, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, the Universidad de Granada and Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Spain,...

Feb 27, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers at Yale University and the Texas Tech University have found a way of predicting whether a given glass will be ductile or brittle. A glass sculpture...

Feb 27, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found tantalizing evidence for the existence of a shell of stars that...

Feb 27, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new research by an international team of archaeologists provides convincing evidence that the earliest civilization of South America relied heavily on...

Feb 26, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new theoretical study of Earth-like exoplanets orbiting white dwarf stars, accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...

Feb 25, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a study published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, the islands Reunion and Mauritius are hiding a Precambrian microcontinent...

Feb 24, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists from the University of Bergen and the University of Vienna have studied a simple, brainless sea anemone to learn more about the evolutionary...

Feb 22, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Planetary scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have proposed that Mercury may have harbored a large ocean of magma shortly after its formation...

Feb 22, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

By studying a bright blue pigment used in Ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago, U.S. chemists have uncovered clues toward the development of new nanomaterials...

Feb 21, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has made the first observations of a planet outside our Solar System that’s...

Feb 21, 2013 by News Staff

An ongoing study led by two San Francisco Bay Area scientists, Dr Roy Caldwell of the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr Richard Ross of the California...

Feb 20, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new infrared image from ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile reveals a landscape of...

Feb 20, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority has found remains of an industrial installation dating back to the Byzantine period (600...

Feb 20, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

U.S. scientists have discovered that a protein called Jagged-1 stimulates stem cells to differentiate into bone-producing cells. Structure of the Jagged...

Feb 19, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of entomologists from Brazil and the United States has described a new species of tiny insect. The newly discovered forcepfly Austromerope...

Feb 18, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A crew of marine biologists from Scotland and New Zealand, who just returned from a deep-ocean expedition to one of the deepest places on Earth –...

Feb 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new study in mice led by Prof Bo Li of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory examines how fear responses are learned, controlled, and memorized. The findings...