Aug 22, 2013 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists from UK, Denmark, Germany and Spain have found evidence of the use of spices in European cuisine around 5,000 BC. Garlic mustard...

Aug 21, 2013 by News Staff

Increased caffeine intake may reduce fatty liver in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, according to a group of researchers led by Dr Paul...

Aug 21, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study reported in the journal Retrovirology, a plant-derived compound named genistein may become an effective HIV treatment without...

Aug 21, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a beautiful close-up view of an object named Herbig-Haro...

Aug 21, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers reporting in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org) has discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet called Kepler 78b that...

Aug 20, 2013 by News Staff

A new analysis of ancient Egyptian iron beads found in 1911 in Gerzeh, northern Egypt, has shown that they were hammered from pieces of meteorites, rather...

Aug 20, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A study of 1,300 stone hand axes found at 80 Neanderthal sites in France, Germany, Belgium, Britain and the Netherlands shows that two cultural traditions...

Aug 19, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquity Authority (IAA) have unearthed thousands of pottery fragments, clay lamps and figurines in the City of David in...

Aug 16, 2013 by News Staff

According to a large multinational team of researchers, two genes – the blood cell regulator SENP1 and the cancer-associated gene ANP32D –...

Aug 16, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Two biologists reporting in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology say that they have documented for the first time the swimming and diving behavior...

Aug 16, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have established that mature-looking galaxies existed much earlier than previously known, when the...

Aug 16, 2013 by News Staff

Biologists from the United States, Ecuador and Panama have described a new species of carnivore from the cloud forests of Ecuador and Colombia, and named...

Aug 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a new study reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, climate change may have driven the collapse of Eastern Mediterranean civilizations...

Aug 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers reporting in the journal Analytical Chemistry has developed an innovative complex method for verifying the authenticity and rooting...

Aug 15, 2013 by News Staff

U.S. astronomer using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a massive cloud of hot gas likely caused by a collision between a dwarf galaxy...

Aug 15, 2013 by News Staff

According to a large multinational team of researchers, West Antarctica began emerging from the last Ice Age about 20,000 to 22,000 years ago, well before...

Aug 15, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has used observations of the newly discovered pulsar PSR J1745-2900 to measure the magnetic field emanating from a...

Aug 14, 2013 by News Staff

According to an international team of scientists from the United States, Europe and Russia, non-coding parts of the human genome known as vlincRNAs triggered...

Aug 14, 2013 by News Staff

A new study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, shows how anomodonts – ancient relatives of modern mammals – recovered in...

Aug 14, 2013 by News Staff

A new study reported in the Journal of Archaeological Science shows Winnemucca petroglyphs, the oldest known petroglyphs in North America, date to at least...