Geophysicists suggest that large chunks of an ancient tectonic plate known as the Farallon Plate are still present under parts of central California and...
Entomologists have described three new species in the parasitoid wasp genus Cystomastacoides. One of them, Cystomastacoides kiddo, was named after the...
An international team of scientists has discovered a surprisingly huge and active bacterial community living on the sea floor at the deepest site on Earth,...
Fragments of an early human skull dating back 100,000 years exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common...
Scientists at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Tulane University in New Orleans have discovered a clear genetic link between fat and bone mass.
Scientists...
A team of researchers from the United States, France, Japan and the Netherlands, has found in mice that macrophages, white blood cells that play a key...
A new research published in the March 8 issue of the journal Science finally proves that a single anti-ageing enzyme in the body can be targeted, with...
A new study published in the Journal of Dental Research provides the strongest evidence yet that fluoridated drinking water prevents tooth decay for all...
Scientists from Singapore and Belgium have successfully altered the properties of water, making it corrosive enough to etch diamonds.
Diamond particles...
A newly discovered binary brown dwarf is the third-closest star system to our Solar System, and the closest system discovered since 1916.
An artist’s...
Scientists from CERN’s CMS and ATLAS experiments have presented new results that further elucidate the particle discovered in 2012.
H -> 2e2mu candidate...
An expedition of archaeologists has unearthed a 600-year-old Chinese coin on the island of Manda, off the northern coast of Kenya.
Chinese coin found on...
Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an array of 66 radio telescopes located in the dry and cloudless Atacama Desert...
By combining multiple telescope observations and advanced modeling, a multinational team of astronomers has discovered an extremely rare triple quasar...
In a controversial paper published in the March issue of the Journal of Cosmology, scientists from Cardiff University with colleagues from Sri Lanka and...
Paleontologists from the Australian National University have described a new species of ancient fish, after unearthing the largest fossilized lobe-finned...
An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a very rare Type Ibn supernova on the outskirts of a bright elliptical galaxy located...
An international team of genetic researchers led by Prof Merlin Crossley from the University of New South Wales has found the third and final missing piece...
Analysis of DNA extracted from a fossil tooth found in 1975 in a cave called Razboinichya in southern Siberia, Russia, confirms that the tooth belonged...
