Researchers have engineered a new adeno-associated virus that could greatly expand gene therapy to help restore sight to patients with blinding diseases...
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, have found a way to apply pressure to make a material expand instead of compress.
Pressure-induced...
Chemical analysis of fossil tooth enamel from extinct marsupials that lived in what is now southeastern Queensland 5 to 2.5 million years ago has revealed...
New genetic research reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences refutes a recent theory that there is evidence for the presence of...
A newly discovered bird-like dinosaur named Aurornis xui is about 10 million years older than Archaeopteryx, the feathered dinosaur previously considered...
Biologists reporting in the open-access journal Zookeys have identified a new scorpion species from the extraordinarily biodiversity rich region of the...
A new small study of healthy women who regularly consumed beneficial bacteria known as probiotics has provided the first evidence that changing the bacterial...
Using high-pressure synchrotron radiation techniques at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), a team of researchers has examined the structure, bonding...
Etruscan amphorae and a limestone pressing platform unearthed at the ancient coastal port site of Lattara in southern France provide the earliest known...
British scientists have provided evidence that ancient Egyptians used meteorite iron to make accessories as early as 3,300 BC.
The Gerzeh bead is the earliest...
Australian paleontologists have discovered a new species of koala that lived in rainforests of northern Australia some 20 million years ago.
Skull of the...
Entomologists have described a new butterfly species with striking olive green eye color.
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The new species...
An international group of paleontologists writing in the journal Nature Communications has described two new prehistoric species of crocodile from fossils...
Researchers at the University of Bristol’s Center for Market and Public Organization who studied why people choose to make large donations to charity...
Using high-resolution CT scanning and 3D computer imaging, Dr Stephan Lautenschlager from the University of Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences and Dr...
An international team of genetic scientists has completed the genomic sequence of the Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii).
Tibetan antelope, or chiru,...
Dr David Legg, a paleontologist with the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, has discovered an ancient creature with...
Ohio University-led scientists have uncovered fossils of two new species of ancient primates, named Rukwapithecus fleaglei and Nsungwepithecus gunnelli,...
According to an international team of anthropologists led by Binghamton University, tiny ear bones from two species of early human ancestors in South Africa...
A team of biologists headed by Dr James Austin from the University of Florida in Gainesville has described a new species of green palm-pitviper from a...
