U.S. scientists led by Prof Genhong Cheng of the University of California Los Angeles have identified a natural protein with broad virus-fighting properties...
An international team of researchers has used an X-ray laser at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to look for the first time at the structure and...
A new research published in the recent issue of the American Journal of Botany tries to explain how plants sense gravity, and how they direct or signal...
An international team of astronomers suggests a supernova remnant, called W49B, contains the youngest black hole formed in our Milky Way Galaxy.
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A paper published yesterday in the open access journal PLoS ONE describes a new species of scops owl, called the Rinjani Scops Owl, from the island of...
An international team of scientists has used a new automated tool to reconstruct protolanguages – ancient tongues from which modern languages evolved.
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A group of researchers from the National Oceanography Center in Southampton has discovered a strange new deep-sea volcanic vent at Hook Ridge near the...
Microbiologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered that different...
A small, insect-eating animal was the common ancestor of placental mammals, an international team of researchers has reported in the journal Science (full...
By comparing DNA of children to that of elderly people, a multinational team of geneticists has identified rare gene variants that influence human lifespan.
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According to a research published in the open access journal PLoS ONE, a 400k year old fragment of human lower jaw recovered from a Serbian cave is the...
Dr David Charbonneaua and Dr Courtney Dressing, astronomers with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, suggest that about 6 percent of red dwarf...
Researchers from the Richard III Society have unveiled the world’s only facial reconstruction of the human remains found at the Greyfriars in Leicester,...
Neurobiologists from the United States and Japan have identified the location and genetic characteristics of taste stem cells on the tongue.
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An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new view of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106...
According to a research published in the journal Nature Communications, the eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus) relies on stereo sniffing to locate its prey.
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A new research led by Spanish scientists casts doubt on the widely accepted theory that the last Neanderthals persisted in southern Iberia, Spain, at the...
