According to a new research published online in the journal Nature Communications, bone marrow cells that produce brain-derived neurotrophic factor, known...
Biologists have announced the discovery of a new species of scorpion, named Vaejovis brysoni, in the Santa Catalina Mountains in southern Arizona.
Female...
The cockroach genus Pseudophoraspism has been reported from China for the first time.
Top left: male Pseudophoraspis clavellata. Top right: male Pseudophoraspis...
Shark biologists have announced the discovery of two sharks never seen before in Australian waters.
Mandarin dogfish, Cirrhigaleus barbifer (OpenCage.info...
A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, the Universidad de Granada and Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Spain,...
According to a study published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, the islands Reunion and Mauritius are hiding a Precambrian microcontinent...
Biologists from the University of Bergen and the University of Vienna have studied a simple, brainless sea anemone to learn more about the evolutionary...
Planetary scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have proposed that Mercury may have harbored a large ocean of magma shortly after its formation...
A new infrared image from ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile reveals a landscape of...
An international team of entomologists from Brazil and the United States has described a new species of tiny insect.
The newly discovered forcepfly Austromerope...
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...
