Jul 4, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Dr Marcelo Montemurro from the University of Manchester and Dr Damian Zanette from the Centro Atómico Bariloche e Instituto Balseiro, Argentina, claim...

Jul 3, 2013 by News Staff

Dr Iannis Dandouras from the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France, has found the first conclusive proof of the existence...

Jul 3, 2013 by News Staff

A genetic analysis of the Vietnamese white toothed shrew fauna, reported in the open access journal ZooKeys, has revealed a new species in the genus Crocidura,...

Jul 3, 2013 by News Staff

The International Astronomical Union announced yesterday that the names Kerberos and Styx have officially been recognized for the fourth and fifth moons...

Jul 2, 2013 by News Staff

Thylacosmilus atrox – an extinct, bizarre, marsupial super-predator that roamed South America about 4 – 3 million years ago – had huge...

Jul 2, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Marine biologists from Taiwan and New Zealand have identified four new species of deep-sea fish in the anglerfish genus Chaunax. The Yellowspot frogmouth,...

Jul 2, 2013 by News Staff

Two proteins called TAS1R3 and GNAT3, which have been previously known to be involved in oral taste detection, also play a crucial role in sperm development,...

Jul 2, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study reported in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, there may be as many as 60 billion planets in the so-called habitable zone around...

Jul 1, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified a new species of hornless rhino from fossil skull and mandible found in the Tha Chang area, Nakhon Ratchasima Province,...

Jul 1, 2013 by News Staff

A new study reported in the journal Nature Chemistry has filled a significant gap in the scientific understanding of how alcohols are formed and destroyed...

Jul 1, 2013 by News Staff

Israeli archaeologists have unearthed four artifacts that they believe date back to the time of the siege of Jerusalem in the 1st century CE. The siege...