Mar 22, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new research on the elusive giant squid Architeuthis, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, has revealed there is just one species. Architeuthis...

Mar 22, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a daily vitamin C intake equivalent to eating two kiwifruits a day is...

Mar 21, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists led by Dr Kevin de Queiroz from the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, have described two new species of woodlizards in the...

Mar 21, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Australian scientists have discovered a clear link between seismic activity and the precipitation of gold and other trace elements in earthquake fault...

Mar 20, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a new study published today online in the Geophysical Research Letters, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft appears to have exited the heliosphere. Voyager...

Mar 20, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Geophysicists suggest that large chunks of an ancient tectonic plate known as the Farallon Plate are still present under parts of central California and...

Mar 20, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Entomologists have described three new species in the parasitoid wasp genus Cystomastacoides. One of them, Cystomastacoides kiddo, was named after the...

Mar 19, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of scientists has discovered a surprisingly huge and active bacterial community living on the sea floor at the deepest site on Earth,...

Mar 15, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new study published in the Journal of Dental Research provides the strongest evidence yet that fluoridated drinking water prevents tooth decay for all...

Mar 15, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Scientists from Singapore and Belgium have successfully altered the properties of water, making it corrosive enough to etch diamonds. Diamond particles...

Mar 11, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists have found a new species of carp in the waters of Lake Manyas in Anatolia, Turkey. The newly discovered carp species Alburnoides manyasensis...

Mar 7, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new study published in the Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology sheds more light on unusual ‘curtains’ of biological material...

Mar 7, 2013 by Natali Anderson

This is true for sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps) and grey short-tailed opossums (Monodelphis domestica), say biologists from Saint Petersburg State...

Mar 5, 2013 by Natali Anderson

New research on a mineral called molybdenite published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters provides new insights about the changing chemistry...

Mar 4, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Sascha Quanz from the ETH Zurich’s Institute for Astronomy, Switzerland, has obtained what is likely the...

Mar 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a new research published online in the journal Nature Communications, bone marrow cells that produce brain-derived neurotrophic factor, known...

Mar 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists have announced the discovery of a new species of scorpion, named Vaejovis brysoni, in the Santa Catalina Mountains in southern Arizona. Female...

Mar 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

The cockroach genus Pseudophoraspism has been reported from China for the first time. Top left: male Pseudophoraspis clavellata. Top right: male Pseudophoraspis...

Mar 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Shark biologists have announced the discovery of two sharks never seen before in Australian waters. Mandarin dogfish, Cirrhigaleus barbifer (OpenCage.info...

Feb 28, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new research led by Dr Kimberley Seed from the Tufts University School of Medicine provides the first evidence that bacteriophages – viruses that...