A new study in owl monkeys (Aotus azarai) reveals that, when an owl monkey pair is severed by an intruding individual, the mate who takes up with a new...
Dr Tina Šantl Temkiv and colleagues from Aarhus University, Denmark, have completed the first ever inventory of microbes and soil chemicals in a storm...
An international team of biologists led by Dr Marie Dacke of Lund University, Sweden, has discovered that African dung beetles (Scarabaeus satyrus) use...
An international team of researchers from the UK and New Zealand has discovered a previously undocumented type of eruption in underwater volcanoes.
Macauley...
An international team of scientists has discovered a 2-million-year-old species of fox at the site of Malapa in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage...
A team of neuroscientists has created a detailed map of the brain regions that contribute to emotional intelligence, the ability to process emotional information.
Prof...
According to a new study published today in the online journal mBio, male scientists are far more likely to commit fraud than females and the fraud occurs...
Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array have captured a new view of a 20,000-year-old supernova remnant that resembles an endangered species...
A team of British researchers has discovered that some bacteria are able to change the make-up of supporting cells within the nerve system, called Schwann...
British scientists have made a surprising discovery after studying how tadpoles of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) and the Western clawed frog...
An international team of amphibian biologists led by Dr Jodi Rowley of the Australian Museum in Sydney has discovered a new species of flying frog near...
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University have discovered a possible dwarf protogalaxy, and another dwarf galaxy, in the constellation Ursa Major.
Sloan...
An international team of zoologists has discovered a gorgeous new species of lizard in southern Vietnam.
Male Calotes bachae. Due to their shining blue...
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered what may be the most distant Type Ia supernova ever found.
Supernova...
Biologists have found evidence suggesting that the western long-beaked echidna, Zaglossus bruijnii, thought to have gone extinct in Australia thousands...
Scientists from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the Institute of Biology Leiden, the Netherlands, have found two new species of cichlid fish in Lake...
A team of British and Chinese biologists has discovered three new species of nettles in China, one in a cave and another two in deep gorges.
Pilea cavernicola...
A team of biologists from the University of Vigo, Spain, and the Alejandro de Humboldt National Park in Cuba, has identified two new species of Caribbean...
British scientists have identified for the first time a particular ‘secondary microflora component’ that helps give blue cheese its distinctive aroma.
Blue...
