May 23, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to an international team of astronomers working with ESA’s Herschel Space Telescope, two gas-rich, actively star-forming galaxies that collided...

May 21, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Entomologists Dr John Huber from the Canadian National Collection of Insects and Dr John Noyes from the Natural History Museum, UK, have described a new...

May 20, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Italian scientists have found abundant evidence that the world’s tallest peak is shedding its frozen cloak. A new study finds a decline in snow and ice...

May 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of scientists led by Prof Cheng-Ming Chuong from the University of Southern California has discovered unique cellular and molecular...

May 14, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A large team of genetic researchers has sequenced the genome of the sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera), which is believed to have a powerful genetic system...

May 14, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a new study reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, a human breast milk protein complex called HAMLET can help reverse the antibiotic...

May 13, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Dr Serguei Triapitsyn from the University of California Riverside’s Entomology Research Museum has identified 19 new species in the mymarid wasp genus...

May 7, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists, reporting in the journal Nature Communications, have identified a new species of bone-headed, plant-eating dinosaur that lived about 85...

May 6, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists at Murdoch University have described a new species of freshwater fish from Western Australia. The Little Pygmy Perch, Nannoperca pygmaea, is...

May 3, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Geologists led by Dr Lydia Hallis from the University of Hawaii have examined a meteorite that formed on Mars more than 1 billion years ago to determine...

May 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has discovered and studied a strange stellar pair about 7,000 light-years...

Apr 26, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Researchers have found evidence that material contained in young oceanic lava flows originated at the Earth’s surface in the Archean era, more than 2...

Apr 24, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new study published online in the journal mBio is the first to show that a bioluminescent bacterium known as Vibrio fischeri regulates a daily rhythm...

Apr 22, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has discovered tiny grains of sand from ancient supernova in two primitive meteorites. Primitive carbonaceous chondrite...

Apr 19, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new research headed by Prof Joanna Berzowska from the Concordia University’s Department of Design and Computation Arts brings the future of fashion...

Apr 18, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international consortium of experts led by Prof Chris Amemiya from the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason and the University of Washington...

Apr 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to scientists reporting in the journal PLoS Medicine, obesity can lead to a lack of vitamin D circulating in the human body. This image illustrates...

Apr 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a study published online in the Journal of Adolescent Health, teen smokers who increased the days on which they got just 20 minutes of exercise...

Apr 16, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of biologists studying monkfish has found that the bottom-dwelling creature can prey on a small Arctic seabird called dovekie, the...

Apr 15, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Australian biologists announced the unexpected capture of an extremely rare ray – the Magpie fiddler ray (Trygonorrhina melaleuca). Magpie fiddler...