Jul 10, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists from the Aalto University in Finland has located where the sounds associated with the northern lights, or aurora borealis, are created. The...

Jul 9, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of researchers led by Lanzhou University, China, has completed the genomic sequence of a female domestic yak. Yak near the sacred...

Jul 5, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

California University scientists have discovered that tiny ‘bone-devouring worms’, known to both eat and inhabit dead whale skeletons and other...

Jul 4, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Librarians at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, have discovered a previously unknown variant of the famous map of the world printed...

Jun 29, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Melanin – the pigment that colors skin, eyes and hair – could soon be the face of a new generation of bio-friendly electronic devices used in applications...

Jun 27, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA scientists have announced that Voyager 1 probe is nearing the very edge of the Solar system. Photograph of one of the two identical Voyager space...

Jun 26, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Young, healthy adult volunteers exposed for two hours to ozone developed physiological changes associated with cardiovascular ailments, according to a...

Jun 20, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers from two institutions in Patna, India, have developed an environmentally friendly approach to making silver nanoparticles. Pomegranates at...

Jun 19, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Previously undiscovered particles could be detected as they accumulate around black holes, a team of researchers at the Vienna University of Technology...

Jun 15, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Yale University have discovered that grasshoppers stressed by spiders affect the productivity...

Jun 12, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of researchers has discovered melt-glass material in a thin layer of sedimentary rock in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Syria....

Jun 7, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

British scientists have developed a new technique to accurately measure the weight and size of dinosaurs and found they are not as heavy as previously...

Jun 7, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Australian researchers have found that two common mango varieties contain natural compounds that may help fight obesity. Green mango A team from the University...

Jun 4, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Tel Aviv University researchers have found that the ancient Egyptians developed unique system of volume measurement based on sphere units. A Phoenician...

May 31, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists have found prehistoric birds that disappeared 65 million years ago may have employed flight styles different to their modern-day counterparts. In...

May 30, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and the University of Texas has found that East Asian and American Facebook users...

May 28, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, a team of scientists from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the University of Warwick and IBM Research – Zurich...

May 28, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A European scientist has presented an explanation for the origin of sliding friction between solid objects. An experiment to demonstrate static and sliding...

May 25, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of researchers has identified why some curry dishes, made with spices humans have used for thousands of years, might be good for...

May 24, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have discovered a rare ancient artifact that provides the earliest evidence for the existence of the...