Scientists led by Prof Mark Anderson from the University of Iowa have found that the enzyme CaMKII (Calcium/calmodulin-dependent kinase II), known for...
British archaeologists have unearthed an unprecedented find on Dorstone Hill, near Peterchurch in Herefordshire, England – two large 6,000-year-old halls,...
Obaid Siddiqi (January 7th, 1932 – July 26th, 2013) recently passed away after battling injuries from a road accident.
Obaid Siddiqi
At 81 and still...
Peruvian and U.S. ornithologists have described a new species of bird in the genus Scytalopus found on the eastern slopes of the Andes in Junin Department,...
A new way of measuring the spin in supermassive black holes, reported in a paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (full paper in...
A team of researchers from Indonesia, Taiwan and France has described a new whipray species in the family Dasyatidae.
The Fine-spotted Leopard Whipray,...
Prof Trevor Lamb of the Australian National University has published a major scientific review of the origin of the vertebrate eye and vision, summarizing...
According to a new study reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the threat of infants being killed by rival males is the key...
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed six transits of an exoplanet called HD 189733b, the closest...
Biologists from Madagascar and Germany led by Dr Andreas Hapke of the Johannes Gutenberg University’s Institute of Anthropology have described a new,...
Arachnoscelis arachnoids, a rare species of katydid from Central Northeast of Colombia, uses elastic energy and wing movement to reach volumes greater...
A new study published in the journal Current Biology provides the first scientific evidence that the lunar cycle can influence human sleep.
New study shows...
U.S. researchers believe they have answered a long-standing question about how electrons in the Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts can suddenly become...
A new study published online in the Journal of Human Evolution refutes a long body of evidence, suggesting that a 9-million-year-old ape called Oreopithecus...
Scientists from Japan and the United States have shown that they can plant false memories in the brains of genetically modified mice.
The team identified...
Herpes simplex virus 1 has an internal pressure eight times higher than a car tire, and uses it to literally blast its DNA into human cells, according...
New research reported in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society shows that the previously known but misclassified small predatory fish Fouldenia...
Very detailed new observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) of nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 may help explain the strange...
Superresolution single-molecule fluorescence microscopy has given researchers their clearest pictures yet of how white blood immune cells, known as natural...
