Dr. William Smith-Vaniz of the University of Florida and Dr. Gerald Allen of the Western Australian Museum have discovered a new species of diminutive...
An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Frank Glaw of the Zoological State Collection of Munich in Germany, has discovered four new species of...
There have been many hypotheses why zebra have stripes, including predator confusion, crypsis or thermoregulation, but the correct answer was unknown –...
An international team of researchers has for the first time studied the mechanism of iridescence in the hairs of golden moles.
The iridescence is widespread...
An international team of researchers has rediscovered the extremely rare primate Miller’s Grizzled Langur, a species which was believed to be extinct...
An international team of ornithologists has discovered the breeding area for the extremely rare bird Black-throated blue robin (Luscinia obscura) in Shaanxi...
A team of researchers from the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center has discovered a gene mutation, which is believed to have occurred in...
A U.S. researcher has discovered the world’s smallest frogs in forests of southeastern Papua New Guinea.
The study by Fred Kraus from the Bishop Museum,...
An international team of researchers has revealed the first evidence of animals advertising their homes to potential mates.
Researchers from University...
Evolutionary biologists from University of Michigan found that paper wasps have evolved specialized face-learning abilities analogous to the system used...
The Zooniverse team at Oxford University and Scientific American have launched the whale-song project, called Whale FM, to involve curious citizen scientists....
A team of Scottish researchers found that taking too much paracetamol on a regular basis puts a patient at high risk of an accidental overdose.
A paper,...
A team of scientists led by chemist Robert Doyle demonstrated, for the first time, that a critical hormone that helps people feel full after eating can...
Japanese researchers have discovered a hitherto unknown population of coelacanths, a fish species known as a living fossil, off southeast Africa, according...
Researchers from MIT and Children’s Hospital Boston have built cardiac patches studded with tiny gold wires that could be used to create pieces of tissue...
Researchers found that children who are poor readers have the same brain difficulty in processing the sounds of language whether they have a high or low...
Scientists at Harvard University have created a material that repels just about any type of liquid, including blood and oil, and does so even under harsh...
Dutch researchers revealed that the more fruits and vegetables you eat, especially white-fleshed goodies, the more you protect yourself against stroke.
It...
Scientists have found that larger groups of great and blue tits are better at solving problems than smaller ones, according to a press release of Oxford...
On-line gamers have solved the structure of a retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stymied scientists, according to a press release from National...
