Jul 10, 2013 by News Staff

Australian chemists have developed a potential new antibiotic that could help in the battle against antibiotic resistant bacteria, including the methicillin-resistant...

Jul 10, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Biologists have described a tiny new species of nematode from an oak forest in Fukushima province, Japan, and named it after the German theoretical physicist...

Jul 10, 2013 by News Staff

European astronomers, using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) in Chile’s Atacama desert, have observed the birth of a massive...

Jul 10, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has discovered a fragment of a sphinx statue of the pharaoh Menkaure, one of the pyramid-building...

Jul 9, 2013 by News Staff

A broad range of evidence from linguistics, genetics, paleontology, and archaeology suggests that Neanderthals and Denisovans shared with us something...

Jul 9, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists reporting in the open-access journal Zookeys have identified a diminutive new catfish species in the waters of Rio Rio Paraíba do Sul basin,...

Jul 9, 2013 by News Staff

According to new research reported in the Geophysical Research Letters, increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) over the past three decades have caused...

Jul 9, 2013 by News Staff

Researchers have proposed a radical solution to a cosmochemical mystery that has baffled scientists for over a century: how numerous small, glassy chondrules...

Jul 9, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a new study conducted by marine biologists Dr Anders Garm from the University of Copenhagen and Dr Dan-Erik Nilsson from Lund University,...

Jul 9, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from the United States and Russia analyzing microwave and magnetic-field data from solar-dedicated facilities and spacecraft have reported...

Jul 8, 2013 by News Staff

Dr Marco Malagodi from the Università degli Studi di Pavia in Italy and his colleagues have used innovative methods to identify the techniques used by...

Jul 8, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational team of scientists led by Prof Benjamin Blencowe from the University of Toronto has identified proteins that play a key role in controlling...

Jul 8, 2013 by News Staff

According to a team of archaeologists led by Dr Nicholas Conard from Tübingen University, the transition from foraging to farming took place at roughly...

Jul 8, 2013 by News Staff

Using DNA and RNA sequencing, an international team of researchers has revealed a surprising variety of life forms living in the subglacial Lake Vostok. Radar...

Jul 5, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers, led by Dr Nicolas Bouche from the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France, have spotted a distant galaxy hungrily...

Jul 5, 2013 by Natali Anderson

British-Australian team of scientists has revealed the past position of the Australian, Antarctic and Indian tectonic plates at 165 million years ago,...

Jul 5, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists reporting in the journal Nature has discovered a biochemical pathway that links nail growth to fingertip regeneration. Digit...

Jul 5, 2013 by Natali Anderson

New research, reported in the open-access journal PloS ONE, has yielded a surprising result: an Indonesian species of parrot known as Goffin’s Cockatoo,...

Jul 5, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of scientists has detected mysterious bursts of radio waves originating from cosmological distances when the Universe was just half...

Jul 4, 2013 by News Staff

Our Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy had a close encounter around 10 billion years ago, according to European astronomers led by Dr Hongsheng...