News Archive for September 2013

Entomologists from Panama, Europe, Canada and Brazil have teamed up to describe in detail the different degrees of maternal instincts present within eight...

Olenellids – an early group of trilobites – were able to roll themselves up defensively, according to Dr Javier Ortega-Hernández from the...

A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience explains how global atmospheric circulation creates a previously undetected layer of ozone above...

Men who have low levels of testosterone, a key male sex hormone that helps maintain sex drive, sperm production and bone health, may have a slightly elevated...

Astronomers using ArTeMiS, a new instrument installed on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment – a 12-m diameter telescope in the Atacama Desert, have...

Fourteen-year-long archaeological excavations in the Parc National des Écrins in the southern Alps have provided evidence of human activity from the...

Biologists from Canada, the United States, Colombia and Guyana have described a new species and genus of electric knifefish from South America. Akawaio...

In five papers published today in the journal Science, scientists using the ChemCam, CheMin instruments, the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) and...

An analysis of three-billion-year-old soils from South Africa shows that oxygen appeared in the atmosphere more than 600 million years earlier than previously...

A team of paleontologists from China, the United States and Sweden has found a well-preserved fossil of ancient fish that lived in what is now China about...

Nineteen elements – including gold, arsenic, fluorine, cadmium, molybdenum and thorium – have been assigned new atomic weights, according to...

A team of astronomers led by Dr Alessandro Papitto from the Institute of Space Studies of Barcelona has discovered a fast-spinning pulsar that switches...

A new study, reported in the Journal of Archaeological Science, explores behavior of Aboriginal Australians during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM for short). Aboriginal...

Archaeologists have unearthed remains of a theater at the archaeological site of the Roman town of Interamna Lirenas, founded in the late 4th century BC. Digging...

New, deep observations of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1689 have revealed that it hosts the largest population of globular clusters ever found. This...

Two skull fossils unearthed in Germany provide the first direct evidence that lepidosaurs – reptiles closely related to lizards, snakes and tuatara...

Astronomers led by Prof Joss Bland-Hawthorn from the University of Sydney have found evidence that the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy,...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based optical telescopes have discovered what they say is the...

Audubon’s warblers (Setophaga coronata auduboni) may have acquired genes from fellow migrating songbirds in order to travel greater distances, say...

A team of scientists from Indonesia, Denmark, France and the United States has discovered a new species and genus of rodent on the Halmahera Island in...