An international team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope has found the most distant Type Ia supernova ever detected.
This is a Hubble view...
Biologists from the University of Helsinki and the Institute of Biology and Soil Science in Bishkek have found a new species of onion in the Babash-Ata...
An international team of scientists using the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer aboard the International Space Station has announced the first results in the...
An international team of ichthyologists has described a remarkable new genus and species of miniature fish from the Rio Negro, one of the best explored...
An international team of genetic researchers has sequenced and analyzed the complete genomes of three separate populations of aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis),...
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...
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...
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...
Australian scientists have discovered a clear link between seismic activity and the precipitation of gold and other trace elements in earthquake fault...
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...
Geophysicists suggest that large chunks of an ancient tectonic plate known as the Farallon Plate are still present under parts of central California and...
Entomologists have described three new species in the parasitoid wasp genus Cystomastacoides. One of them, Cystomastacoides kiddo, was named after the...
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,...
A new study published in the Journal of Dental Research provides the strongest evidence yet that fluoridated drinking water prevents tooth decay for all...
Scientists from Singapore and Belgium have successfully altered the properties of water, making it corrosive enough to etch diamonds.
Diamond particles...
Biologists have found a new species of carp in the waters of Lake Manyas in Anatolia, Turkey.
The newly discovered carp species Alburnoides manyasensis...
A new study published in the Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology sheds more light on unusual ‘curtains’ of biological material...
This is true for sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps) and grey short-tailed opossums (Monodelphis domestica), say biologists from Saint Petersburg State...
New research on a mineral called molybdenite published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters provides new insights about the changing chemistry...
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...
