Apr 22, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of the Horsehead Nebula in infrared light. This new Hubble image...

Apr 22, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has discovered tiny grains of sand from ancient supernova in two primitive meteorites. Primitive carbonaceous chondrite...

Apr 19, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new pilot study conducted by scientists at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK, a deep breath could become stress-detector. Scientists...

Apr 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has created ‘nanosponges’ capable of removing a broad class of toxins from the bloodstream,...

Apr 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Using observations with NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earths in the habitable...

Apr 19, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new research headed by Prof Joanna Berzowska from the Concordia University’s Department of Design and Computation Arts brings the future of fashion...

Apr 18, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the most detailed view yet of the supernova SN 1006. X-ray image of the SN 1006...

Apr 18, 2013 by News Staff

A team of neuroscientists from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston reversed memory loss in nerve cells of the California sea hare (Aplysia...

Apr 18, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international consortium of experts led by Prof Chris Amemiya from the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason and the University of Washington...

Apr 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to scientists reporting in the journal PLoS Medicine, obesity can lead to a lack of vitamin D circulating in the human body. This image illustrates...

Apr 17, 2013 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Oryx shows that collaborative approaches to conservation can give hope to endangered species such as the South Andean...

Apr 17, 2013 by News Staff

A large group of researchers led by Cambridge University scientists has for the first time mapped an enzyme called telomerase. This illustration shows...

Apr 17, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A study of Grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) published in the journal PLoS ONE has revealed that the Moon, water temperature and even time...

Apr 17, 2013 by News Staff

Massive underground explosions, perhaps involving ice, have created the pits inside two large impact craters in the Thaumasia Planum region on Mars, say...

Apr 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a study published online in the Journal of Adolescent Health, teen smokers who increased the days on which they got just 20 minutes of exercise...

Apr 17, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A study published in the journal Neurology shows that, in some families, only one gene may be responsible for fainting, also known as vasovagal syncope. Fainting...

Apr 16, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers at the Rockefeller University and a pharmaceutical company have developed a new antibiotic that kills a wide range of bacteria, including methicillin-resistant...

Apr 16, 2013 by News Staff

New observations made with the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, have tracked the ‘rain’ of charged water particles into the atmosphere...

Apr 16, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of biologists studying monkfish has found that the bottom-dwelling creature can prey on a small Arctic seabird called dovekie, the...

Apr 15, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Australian biologists announced the unexpected capture of an extremely rare ray – the Magpie fiddler ray (Trygonorrhina melaleuca). Magpie fiddler...