Mar 11, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists have found a new species of carp in the waters of Lake Manyas in Anatolia, Turkey. The newly discovered carp species Alburnoides manyasensis...

Mar 10, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists led by the University of California Los Angeles has found that levels of a peptide called hypocretin (also known as...

Mar 7, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new study published in the Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology sheds more light on unusual ‘curtains’ of biological material...

Mar 7, 2013 by Natali Anderson

This is true for sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps) and grey short-tailed opossums (Monodelphis domestica), say biologists from Saint Petersburg State...

Mar 7, 2013 by News Staff

U.S. researchers have discovered a long-lived zone of high-energy electrons stored between Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts. Two giant swaths of radiation,...

Mar 6, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

U.S. genetic researchers led by Prof James McManaman from the University of Colorado’s School of Medicine have found that deleting a gene called Perilipin...

Mar 6, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A group of paleontologists has announced the discovery of fossilized remains of an extinct giant camel that lived in what is now Canada about 3.5 million...

Mar 6, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of researchers from Australia, Argentina and Chile has found the answer to one of natural history’s most intriguing puzzles...

Mar 6, 2013 by News Staff

A new study by Prof Mike Brown from the California Institute of Technology and Dr Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory suggests that salty water...

Mar 5, 2013 by Natali Anderson

New research on a mineral called molybdenite published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters provides new insights about the changing chemistry...

Mar 5, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to U.S. paleontologists, the discovery of 19 million year old crocodilian fossils in Panama sheds new light on the history of interchange and...

Mar 5, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from the University of Massachusetts, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and the University of Mississippi have reported about the first...

Mar 4, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, the University of Tennessee and North Carolina State University, have found the...

Mar 4, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An extremely rare African American Y chromosome found in an individual who submitted his DNA to a company specializing in DNA analysis to trace family...

Mar 4, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Sascha Quanz from the ETH Zurich’s Institute for Astronomy, Switzerland, has obtained what is likely the...

Mar 1, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Scientists working at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station have found an 18 kg chondrite embedded in the East Antarctic ice sheet. Members of...

Mar 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a new research published online in the journal Nature Communications, bone marrow cells that produce brain-derived neurotrophic factor, known...

Mar 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists have announced the discovery of a new species of scorpion, named Vaejovis brysoni, in the Santa Catalina Mountains in southern Arizona. Female...

Mar 1, 2013 by News Staff

A team of students from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, using the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment’s telescope ROTSE3b at the McDonald...

Mar 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

The cockroach genus Pseudophoraspism has been reported from China for the first time. Top left: male Pseudophoraspis clavellata. Top right: male Pseudophoraspis...