Small stone blades and other tools found in a cave near Mossel Bay in South Africa have provided proof that Stone Age humans invented the technology of...
A new species of horned, plant-eating dinosaur has been identified by U.S. and Canadian paleontologists from fossils originally collected in 1958.
An artist’s...
An international team of paleontologists led by the University of Michigan has studied fossilized teeth of saber-toothed cats and bear dogs found at Cerro...
A team of biologists has made the first complete description of the spade-toothed beaked whale, Mesoplodon traversii, a whale species previously known...
A gene that is associated with regeneration of injured nerve cells has been identified by a team of researchers led by Prof Melissa Rolls of Penn State...
An international team of scientists has sequenced mitochondrial genome of first New Zealand settlers, and revealed a surprising degree of genetic variation...
A study led by Prof Kristen Hawkes at the University of Utah provides new mathematical support for the ‘grandmother hypothesis,’ a theory that humans...
A professional paleontologist has identified a new species of coelacanth from 100 million-year-old fossil remains found in the fossil-rich Duck Creek Formation,...
Australian researchers claim they have developed milk that protects human cells from the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
Dr Marit Kramski of the University...
Australian scientists have shown that an enzyme called tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA), which plays a vital role in the removal of blood clots,...
According to an international team of paleontologists, a Cambrian fossil arthropod found in China is the earliest known fossil to show a brain.
This image...
A multinational team of astronomers led by Dr Joel Kastner of Rochester Institute of Technology has captured stunning views of four planetary nebulae:...
A team of Australian scientists has proposed a new mathematical theory to explain the mysterious phenomenon known as ball lightning.
Sightings of ball...
A team of biologists led by Dr Yuen Ip of the National University of Singapore has discovered that Chinese soft-shelled turtles, Pelodiscus sinensis, effectively...
Canadian researchers have provided new evidence that gamblers interpret near-misses as frustrating losses rather than near-wins. This frustration stimulates...
According to a new study led by Dr Gillian Forrester of the University of Sussex, a predominance to be right-handed is not a uniquely human trait but one...
A team of Lund University scientists has discovered that the accelerated learning of foreign languages can lead to the growth of language-related regions...
Paleontologists have discovered an extraordinarily rare fossil of a spider attacking a wasp caught in its web.
This is the only fossil ever discovered...
