Ohio University-led scientists have uncovered fossils of two new species of ancient primates, named Rukwapithecus fleaglei and Nsungwepithecus gunnelli,...
Researchers from Canada and the United Kingdom led by Prof Chris Ballentine from the University of Manchester have discovered ancient water pockets that...
A new study reported in the journal Nature Communications indicates that the Minoans, who 5,000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization...
According to an international team of anthropologists led by Binghamton University, tiny ear bones from two species of early human ancestors in South Africa...
A team of biologists headed by Dr James Austin from the University of Florida in Gainesville has described a new species of green palm-pitviper from a...
Paleontologists led by Dr Pascal Godefroit from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences have identified a new species of ichthyosaur from a well-preserved...
A team of researchers from Germany and France reporting in the Physical Review Letters has developed and successfully tested a form of invisibility cloak...
An international team of scientists from Israel and the United States has reported the first-ever discovery of an extrasolar planet using a novel method...
A large team of genetic researchers has sequenced the genome of the sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera), which is believed to have a powerful genetic system...
According to a new study reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, a human breast milk protein complex called HAMLET can help reverse the antibiotic...
Dr Serguei Triapitsyn from the University of California Riverside’s Entomology Research Museum has identified 19 new species in the mymarid wasp genus...
A team of researchers from the United States and Japan led by Prof Nirmal Banda from the University of Colorado School of Medicine has found that fat cells...
A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has discovered a spectacular, large 1,500-year-old mosaic at an archaeological site...
New research led by Prof Joseph Ferraro from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has provided the oldest known evidence of hunting, scavenging and meat eating...
Languages spoken across Europe and Asia are descended from a proto-language that was used 15,000 to 10,000 years ago, say researchers led by Dr Andrew...
According to a new research reported in the open access journal PLoS ONE, ancient people on the southern coast of China about 4,500-5,300 years ago relied...
A new study by scientists at Sahlgrenska Academy, Sweden, shows that humans have two different types of brown fat cells, not one as previously thought.
Newly...
According to a new research headed by virologist Dr Edward Campbell from Loyola University Chicago, a protein called alpha-synuclein, known to be a key...
An international team of paleontologists has described a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Middle-Late Jurassic of Xinjiang, China.
Skull of Aorun...
A large multinational team of genetic researchers has identified three unique genetic variations that influence body size and obesity in men and women...
