An international team of researchers has used an X-ray laser at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to look for the first time at the structure and...
A new research published in the recent issue of the American Journal of Botany tries to explain how plants sense gravity, and how they direct or signal...
A paper published yesterday in the open access journal PLoS ONE describes a new species of scops owl, called the Rinjani Scops Owl, from the island of...
A group of researchers from the National Oceanography Center in Southampton has discovered a strange new deep-sea volcanic vent at Hook Ridge near the...
Microbiologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered that different...
Dr David Charbonneaua and Dr Courtney Dressing, astronomers with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, suggest that about 6 percent of red dwarf...
According to a research published in the journal Nature Communications, the eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus) relies on stereo sniffing to locate its prey.
The...
Humans alone were responsible for the demise of the thylacine, an extinct predator also known as the Tasmanian tiger, according to a new study led by University...
A team of scientists from Japan has found a way to take a close look at the temperature distribution inside living cells.
In a previous study, Dr Okabe’s...
Narrow ridges found in Martian impact craters in the Nilosyrtis highlands and the Nili Fossae region are the fossilized remnants of underground cracks...
Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have captured two new views of the Andromeda Galaxy.
This new image from the Herschel Space Observatory...
It has not been clear how salt halts the growth of the plant-root system, until now. According to an international study published in the journal Plant...
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...
