Oct 22, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A team of biologists has discovered a new species of bubble-nesting fighting fish in Samut Sakhon Province, Thailand. Male B. mahachaiensis displaying...

Oct 17, 2012 by Natali Anderson

European astronomers using HARPS instrument on the 3.6-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile, have discovered an exoplanet with about the...

Oct 16, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A coral specialist from the Netherlands has reported the discovery of a new coral species that lives on the ceilings of caves in Indo-Pacific coral reefs. This...

Oct 16, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers from three U.S. universities has suggested that the most likely source of the water locked inside lunar soils is the constant stream...

Oct 11, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Yale researchers have discovered that a rocky super-Earth orbiting a nearby star is a diamond planet. This illustration shows the interior of 55 Cancri...

Oct 3, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Scientists, using data from a high-resolution spectrometer aboard ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft, have discovered a surprisingly cold layer high in Venusian...

Oct 2, 2012 by Natali Anderson

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4183. NGC 4183 is a spiral galaxy little smaller than the Milky...

Sep 27, 2012 by Natali Anderson

With a bulbous body and spiky scales, a shaggy lure dangling from its head, and foot-like fins that it uses to walk along the seafloor, the deep-sea anglerfish...

Sep 26, 2012 by Natali Anderson

According to a team of researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, mechanisms learned from the early phase of limb...

Sep 24, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of microbiologists has discovered that some gut microbes increase the absorption of dietary fats, allowing the host organism to extract...

Sep 19, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A study led by Dr Christopher Karpowitz of Brigham Young University shows that having a seat at the table is very different than having a voice, for women. Scientists...

Sep 17, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of biologists has discovered a new species of monkey in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cercopithecus lomamiensis (Maurice Emetshu) The...

Sep 13, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A nearly toothless shrew rat has been discovered on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia by an international group of biologists led by Dr Jacob Esselstyn...

Sep 11, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Experts from the IUCN Species Survival Commission have identified for the first time ever 100 of the most threatened animals, plants and fungi on the planet. Eight...

Sep 11, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Biologists have discovered that the Pollia condensata fruit does not get its blue color from pigment but instead uses structural color – a method of...

Sep 10, 2012 by Natali Anderson

By using five years of observation on neighboring communities of chimpanzees at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia, an international team of scientists...

Sep 4, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Biologist Dr Robert Mesibov of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania, has discovered six new species of colorful, curiously...

Aug 31, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A collaboration between a computer scientist and a biologist has revealed that a species of harvester ants determine how many foragers to send out of the...

Aug 30, 2012 by Natali Anderson

San Diego Zoo Global researchers, collaborating with Chinese scientists, have discovered that pandas make clear and specific choices about what trees are...

Aug 27, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Biologists at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole have explained how longfin inshore squid,...