Newly discovered fossils from 10 million years after the end-Permian mass extinction reveal a lineage of animals thought to have led to dinosaurs in what...
According to a new research by archaeologists from the University of Gothenburg, inhabitants of a small Neolithic farming village located in modern-day...
Researchers from Israel and the United States led by Dr Noam Shomron of Tel Aviv University have developed an innovative method for physical diagnosis...
Results of excavations at Ceibal, an ancient Maya site in Guatemala, challenge two prevailing theories on how the ancient Maya civilization began, suggesting...
Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo and the National Museum of Nature and Science in Ibaraki have precisely measured the brain size of Homo...
A team of microbiologists led by Prof Chen Hualan of the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute investigated the origins of a new influenza A (H7N9) virus...
A team of scientists from the United States and Canada has created a first-ever carbohydrate-based vaccine against Clostridium bolteae, gut bacterium common...
Researchers have found evidence that material contained in young oceanic lava flows originated at the Earth’s surface in the Archean era, more than 2...
According to a paper published in Nature, 70 per cent of protein-coding human genes are related to genes found in the zebrafish (Danio rerio), and 84 per...
Astronomers using e-MERLIN Radio Telescope Array at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, UK, have captured a new image of the outer atmosphere of...
Troodon formosus, a small North American theropod dinosaur, incubated its eggs in a similar way to brooding birds, according to paleontologists at the...
Scientists from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment have reported the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays...
An international team of scientists has used ancient DNA recovered from human remains dating from up to 5,500 BC to reconstruct the first detailed genetic...
A new study published online in the journal mBio is the first to show that a bioluminescent bacterium known as Vibrio fischeri regulates a daily rhythm...
NASA scientists have released the clearest view yet of the comet ISON, a newly discovered sungrazing comet that may light up the sky later this year.
This...
A study conducted by researchers at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, sheds new light on the causes of hedonic hyperphagia, a condition that plagues hundreds...
According to a study accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (arXiv.org version), a blazar called PKS 1424+240 is the most distant...
Astronomers at the European Space Agency have released a new view of the Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus.
This color view of Enceladus was taken by Cassini...
Paleontologists have identified the first new species of dinosaur from the island of Madagascar in nearly a decade.
Outline of Dahalokely tokana with a...
