Jun 29, 2022 by Natali Anderson

A team of ichthyologists from the Kagoshima University and the Kagoshima University Museum has discovered a new species of the fish genus Pteragogus living...

Jun 28, 2022 by Natali Anderson

When a space body enters Earth’s atmosphere, its surface is exposed to high pressure and temperatures. The airflow tears off small droplets from the...

Jun 24, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Cells of most bacterial species are around 2 micrometers in length, with some of the largest specimens reaching 750 micrometers. The newly-discovered species,...

Jun 23, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Scientifically named Stylobates calcifer, the new sea anemone species lives in a symbiotic relationship with a species of hermit crab called Pagurodofleinia...

Jun 20, 2022 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers, using the radial velocity (RV) method, has discovered a third planet in the planetary system HD 33142. An artist’s...

Jun 17, 2022 by Natali Anderson

New research conducted at multiple retail stores across different countries and in the lab indicates that consuming a caffeinated (vs. non-caffeinated)...

Jun 13, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Humans communicate with each other through language, which enables us talk about things beyond time and space. Do non-human animals learn to associate...

Jun 6, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Using the radial velocity technique, astronomers have discovered a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting near the inner edge of the habitable zone of the cool...

May 31, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India and the University of Calcutta have discovered a cryptic new species of macaque in the forests of the Indian...

May 26, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Eupera troglobia is the first fully described cave-dwelling clam species discovered in the Americas, and possibly the second in the world. Eupera troglobia...

May 18, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Cultivated oat (Avena sativa) is an allohexaploid crop thought to have been domesticated more than 3,000 years ago while growing as a weed in wheat, emmer...

May 11, 2022 by Natali Anderson

To test their hypothesis that the eastern moa (Emeus crassus), an extinct flightless bird from New Zealand, survived the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in...

May 10, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered a transiting multi-planetary system around a nearby red dwarf (M-dwarf)...

Apr 13, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Prasophyllum morganii was first collected from a single population in Victoria, Australia, in 1929, but has not been collected since 1933. Prasophyllum...

Apr 4, 2022 by Natali Anderson

In two large prospective cohorts of U.S. men and women followed for 30 years, higher intake of avocado (≥2 servings/week) was associated with a lower...

Mar 24, 2022 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has described two new species of the frog genus Hyalinobatrachium from the Ecuadorian Andes. The Mashpi glassfrog...

Mar 15, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Based on the numbers seen at sea, both off Australia and New Caledonia, the population of the New Caledonian storm petrel (Fregetta lineata) is in the...

Mar 15, 2022 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has described a new species of the tree frog genus Theloderma from northeastern Vietnam. Theloderma khoii, holotype,...

Mar 11, 2022 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has discovered a new species of the fish genus Cirrhilabrus living in the waters off Maldives and Sri Lanka. The rose-veiled...

Mar 9, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and elsewhere have decoded the genome of the potato cultivar ‘Otava.’ Their results...