Feb 5, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists from Romania, the United Kingdom and Brazil has described a new species of extinct flying reptile from the time of the dinosaurs. This...

Feb 4, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Humans alone were responsible for the demise of the thylacine, an extinct predator also known as the Tasmanian tiger, according to a new study led by University...

Feb 4, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

New observations of the second planet from the Sun made with ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft during a period of reduced solar wind pressure have provided...

Feb 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A team of scientists from Japan has found a way to take a close look at the temperature distribution inside living cells. In a previous study, Dr Okabe’s...

Feb 1, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Using Google logs, an international team of scientists has found that in 2012 Germans searched for the future on the Internet more than any other nation. The...

Feb 1, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Tapeworm eggs found in 270-million-year-old fossilized shark feces provide the earliest known evidence of intestinal parasites in vertebrates. Left: a...

Feb 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A team of biologists at University of Alberta, Canada, has discovered that zebrafish’s stem cells can selectively regenerate damaged photoreceptor...