Oct 17, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A research team in the United States has developed a nanoparticle-based dual vaccine against Bacillus anthracis and Yersinia pestis — pathogens that...

Oct 15, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists from Brock University and the University of British Columbia, Canada, has sequenced the genome of the English lavender (Lavandula...

Sep 27, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Marine biologists from the California Academy of Sciences have discovered a new species of coral reef fish living in the waters off Saint Paul’s Rocks,...

Sep 17, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of ornithologists has discovered a new species of drongo living in the forests of western Africa. A square-tailed drongo in Mkhuze...

Aug 29, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A research team led by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology scientist Thomas van de Kamp has found ancient parasitoid wasps lurking inside 55 mineralized...

Aug 23, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Case Western Reserve University undergraduate student Chris Carr and colleagues have spotted a very diffuse extragalactic cloud in a group of galaxies...

Aug 9, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A study led by Bocconi University’s Professor Francesco Billari has found that high-speed Internet access causally reduces sleep duration and satisfaction. Billari...

Aug 3, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has revealed a stunning close-up shot of the asteroid Ryugu captured by its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft. Hayabusa-2...

Jul 31, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

New research by scientists from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and elsewhere shows how omega 3-rich diet can prevent disruptive, even abusive behavior. This...

Jul 25, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Every compound has different crystal forms with distinct structures and properties called polymorphs. New York University scientist Chunhua Tony Hu and...

Jul 23, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a detailed view of part of NGC 6744, one of the most Milky Way-like spiral galaxies...

Jul 17, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists led by a University of Queensland biologist has discovered a new species of bandy-bandy snake on the west coast of the Cape York Peninsula...

Jul 13, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists at the University of Basel, Switzerland, has discovered that a 1,800-year-old papyrus from the Basel Papyrus Collection is an ancient...

Jul 11, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of Argentinian paleontologists has rewritten the paleontology textbooks by finding that giant, long-necked, herbivorous dinosaurs known as sauropods...

Jul 11, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, CIBERDEM and the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre has demonstrated that a single...

Jul 9, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of a little known galaxy called UGC 12682. This Hubble image shows the irregular galaxy UGC 12682....

Jul 6, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Diet may affect individuals’ risks related to the development and progression of age-related macular degeneration, a progressive chronic disease of the...

Jul 6, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

In a study published June 25 in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, an international team of researchers reports lesions observed on two fallow...

Jun 29, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists has identified two new species of ancient mammals that lived about 13 million years ago (middle Miocene epoch)...

Jun 11, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Galaxy clusters are some of the most massive structures that can be found in the Universe. A remarkable new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...