Sep 7, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers from Germany, French Polynesia and the United Kingdom have successfully sequenced and analyzed the genome of a World Health Organization reference...

Sep 5, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of researchers from the United States and Madagascar has described a new, possibly microendemic, species of the snake genus Madagascarophis...

Aug 29, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Hubble Space Telescope team has released an incredible new image of the binary star Alpha Centauri AB. This Hubble WFPC2 image shows Alpha Centauri...

Aug 26, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

For the first time, researchers have identified a multicomponent RNA virus – one containing different segments of genetic material in separate particles,...

Aug 26, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to an international team of researchers from Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, people with a variation in a particular gene tend...

Aug 18, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Humans living Teotihuacan, a sacred pre-Columbian city that flourished between 1 CE and 600 CE and was once the largest in the Americas, may have bred...

Aug 16, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international group of scientists led by the University of Kansas has created a detailed map that shows areas of the world most likely to see cases...

Aug 13, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists has described a new strikingly-colored species in the snake genus Geophis from the mountains of the Sierra Zongolica in west-central...

Aug 12, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) live at least as long as 400 years, according to a team of marine biologists led by Dr. Julius Nielsen from...

Aug 10, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new infrared image from NASA’s Cassini orbiter shows enormous clouds in the northern hemisphere of the gas giant Saturn. This false-color image from...

Aug 10, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists at the University of Maryland has discovered a beautiful, swirling flame phenomenon, the ‘blue whirl,’ which evolves from a fire...

Aug 8, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

27-million-year-old fossil of newly-discovered toothed whale species provides clues about evolution of high-frequency hearing. Echovenator sandersi produces...

Aug 4, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of astronomers from the United States and France has pinpointed which of 4,270 exoplanets discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission are most likely...

Aug 4, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft about Ceres’ gravity and topography, mission scientists have found that the dwarf planet is ‘differentiated,’...

Jul 30, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have unearthed a 1,600-year-old (Roman period) pottery workshop at the archaeological site of...

Jul 25, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

In a paper published in the journal ACM Transactions on Graphics, researchers from the United States and Israel have demonstrated a display that lets you...

Jul 25, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new biocompatible alloy has been developed, and it’s about 3-4 times harder than most steels and pure titanium. Crystal structure of beta-Ti3Au (blue...

Jul 22, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists excavating a cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany have found what they believe is a rope-making tool nearly 40,000 years old. A...

Jul 22, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of theropod dinosaur has been discovered by a duo of paleontologists – Prof. Philip Currie from the University of Alberta in Canada and...

Jul 21, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

TRAPPIST-1b and c, the two innermost planets in the three-planet system TRAPPIST-1, are primarily rocky, unlike gas giants such as Jupiter, according to...