May 31, 2013 by News Staff

According to a study published in the journal Science, rounded pebbles found in September 2012 by NASA’s Curiosity rover indicate that a stream once...

May 31, 2013 by News Staff

A well-preserved 260-million-year-old fossil of an extinct reptile known as Eunotosaurus fills a 30- to 55-million-year gap in the turtle fossil record,...

May 31, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

British scientists have provided evidence that ancient Egyptians used meteorite iron to make accessories as early as 3,300 BC. The Gerzeh bead is the earliest...

May 30, 2013 by News Staff

A new study conducted by genetic researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign suggests that the regulatory gene Egr, known to be involved...

May 30, 2013 by News Staff

A first laboratory study of the heat-loving Pompeii worm reported in the open access journal PLOS ONE has confirmed that this deep-sea creature ranks among...

May 30, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologists writing in the journal Paludicola report the discovery of exceptionally well-preserved skull and skeletal remains of the elasmosaurid plesiosaur...

May 29, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Australian paleontologists have discovered a new species of koala that lived in rainforests of northern Australia some 20 million years ago. Skull of the...

May 29, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Entomologists have described a new butterfly species with striking olive green eye color. Ministrymon janevicroy (Robbins RK / Glassberg J.) The new species...

May 29, 2013 by Natali Anderson

University of Alberta researchers led by Dr Catherine La Farge have brought back to life 400 year old frozen mosses recovered from melting glaciers in...

May 28, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers led by Dr Angelika Gründling from Imperial College London has discovered 4 proteins that act as receptors for an essential signalling...

May 28, 2013 by News Staff

A team of arachnologists from the Sichuan University and the Institute of Zoology in Beijing has discovered two new species in the spider genera Mysmena...

May 28, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have described a new species of black bass from river systems in the southeastern...

May 28, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational group of geneticists writing in the journal Neuron has reversed schizophrenia-like symptoms in adult mice by restoring normal expression...

May 28, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers using X-ray data from NASA’s Swift, RXTE, Chandra and ESA’s XMM-Newton Space Observatories has discovered...

May 27, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A team of marine researchers from New Zealand has used remote operated vehicles to collect specimens of sea pen previously unknown to science. Acanthoptilum...

May 27, 2013 by News Staff

A novel aerobic, gram-positive bacterium that is able to thrive at minus 15 degrees Celsius  – the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial...

May 27, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study led by Dr Michael Melnick from the University of Rochester, people with high IQ scores aren’t just more intelligent, they...

May 24, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists led by Dr Manish Arora from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have reported that they can now use fossil teeth to calculate when a...

May 24, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has precisely located one of the most-observed variable-star systems in the sky – a double-star system called...

May 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

U.S. researchers studying zebrafish have found that riboflavin, also known as vitamin B2, may mitigate the toxic effects of cyanide. Zebrafish. The inset...