According to an international team of astronomers working with ESA’s Herschel Space Telescope, two gas-rich, actively star-forming galaxies that collided...
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...
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...
An international team of scientists led by Prof Cheng-Ming Chuong from the University of Southern California has discovered unique cellular and molecular...
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...
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...
Dr Serguei Triapitsyn from the University of California Riverside’s Entomology Research Museum has identified 19 new species in the mymarid wasp genus...
Paleontologists, reporting in the journal Nature Communications, have identified a new species of bone-headed, plant-eating dinosaur that lived about 85...
Biologists at Murdoch University have described a new species of freshwater fish from Western Australia.
The Little Pygmy Perch, Nannoperca pygmaea, is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
An international team of researchers has discovered tiny grains of sand from ancient supernova in two primitive meteorites.
Primitive carbonaceous chondrite...
A new research headed by Prof Joanna Berzowska from the Concordia University’s Department of Design and Computation Arts brings the future of fashion...
An international consortium of experts led by Prof Chris Amemiya from the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason and the University of Washington...
According to scientists reporting in the journal PLoS Medicine, obesity can lead to a lack of vitamin D circulating in the human body.
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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...
An international team of biologists studying monkfish has found that the bottom-dwelling creature can prey on a small Arctic seabird called dovekie, the...