Consumption of caffeinated coffee is associated with an increased risk of developing exfoliation glaucoma, the leading cause of secondary glaucoma worldwide,...
A professional paleontologist studying fossils in a collection at Harvard University has identified a new species of dinosaur.
The newly discovered species,...
An international team of entomologists has discovered a potentially dangerous new malaria-transmitting mosquito.
A study, published in the journal Emerging...
According to marine biologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), a ‘vampire squid’ called Vampyroteuthis infernalis uses two...
According to researchers at the University of Gothenburg’s Sahlgrenska Academy in Sweden, antibiotics can replace invasive surgery for the treatment...
An international team of scientists has created a lifelike reconstruction of a multiplacophoran, an ancient mollusk that lived about 390 million years...
Scientists at the University of Washington suggest that early microbes might have been widespread on land, producing oxygen and weathering pyrite, an iron...
An Italian-Aussie team of archaeologists has unearthed new evidence of ancient dentistry in the form of a 6,500-year-old human jaw bone with a tooth showing...
Scientists at the Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, have discovered that people with psychopathic tendencies have an impaired sense of smell,...
A study of fire-damaged artifacts found at the Molí del Salt site in Spain has revealed that hunter-gatherer humans of the Upper Paleolithic Age recycled...
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has tried to answer the question: did a massive comet explode over Canada...
Dutch nanotechnologists have developed a new material that is not only extremely water-repellent but also extremely oil-repellent.
The newly developed...
Archaeologists at the University of Tübingen suggest that eight extremely well-preserved wooden throwing spears found more than a decade ago in Germany...
Biologists from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, have discovered a new species of snail-eater in the highlands of western Panama.
Adult...
Archaeologists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have discovered what they believe is the largest Roman mosaic ever found in southern Turkey.
This...
An archaeological team from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz has discovered the precise location of the oldest Roman military fortification known...
An amateur paleontologist has discovered the world’s smallest known fossil vertebrate footprints at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a 689 ha paleontological...
Archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority have unearthed 9,500-year-old figurines of a ram and a wild bovine at the Tel Moza archaeological site,...
