Sep 6, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of biologists from Thailand, UK and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic has described a new species of flying squirrel in...

Sep 5, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers from Japan using NAOJ’s Subaru Telescope have found that the extrasolar planet Gliese 1214b has a water-rich atmosphere. This artist’s...

Sep 5, 2013 by News Staff

According to European scientists reporting in the journal Nature, bottlenose dolphins and bats have a genetic resemblance due to their echolocation capability. A...

Sep 5, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists have reported the discovery of two new species of toothed electric knifefishes that live under rafts of unrooted grasses and water hyacinth...

Sep 5, 2013 by News Staff

British archaeologists led by Dr Michael Dee from the University of Oxford have been able for the first time to set a robust timeline for the first eight...

Sep 5, 2013 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ESO’s New Technology Telescope, two astronomers from University of Manchester, UK, have studied 130...

Sep 4, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study by Prof Timothy Hatton from the University of Essex and the Australian National University in Canberra, the average height of...

Sep 4, 2013 by News Staff

Dr Kate Loveman from the University of Leicester, UK, has uncovered the first English recipes for chilled chocolate treats, collected by the Earl of Sandwich...

Sep 4, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of biologists has described five new species of Vesper bats from Senegal. Image of Nycticeinops schlieffenii which is represented...

Sep 4, 2013 by News Staff

According to archaeologists from the Tel Aviv University, copper mines in Timna Valley that were thought to have been built by ancient Egyptians in the...

Sep 3, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to an international team of scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an asteroid or comet that landed in...

Sep 3, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr Robert Gess from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg has discovered what he says is the oldest known land-living animal from Gondwana,...

Sep 2, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has taken a major step in understanding why gas near the Milky Way’s...