Nov 29, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Entomologists from Bolivia and Brazil have described a new species of rhinoceros beetle from a subhumid forest in the Southern Bolivian Andes. Oryctophileurus...

Nov 26, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Entomologists from Utah State University have described two new gorgeous species in the rare wasp genus Abernessia. Abernessia giga, female. Image credit:...

Nov 22, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Physicists using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole have detected for the first time mysterious, high-energy neutrinos that originate outside...

Nov 14, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a study published in the Journal of Food Science, a little known fruit called buffaloberry (Shepherdia argentea) might be successfully grown...

Nov 11, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new species of giant, spineless hedgehog that lived in what is today the Gargano peninsula of Italy during the late Miocene,...

Oct 25, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Tert-butyl hydroquinone (TBHQ) – a common food additive – may protect people from the avian influenza A strain H7N9, according to a new study published...

Oct 24, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers from Australia and the United States have documented a massive extinction among bee populations, concurrent with an event that wiped out dinosaurs...

Oct 22, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Entomologists Dr Renzo Perissinotto from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and Dr Philippe Moretto from France...

Oct 18, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

New research led by archaeologists at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, is the first large-scale look at the settlement patterns and power of...

Oct 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists led by Dr Franck Marchis from the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute teamed up with amateur astronomers to discover that the...

Oct 11, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international group of astronomers has used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to observe petal-like shells of the elliptical galaxy PGC 6240. This...

Oct 8, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A newly discovered fossil of an early ray-finned fish, named Saurichthys curionii, from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland reveals a previously unknown...

Oct 3, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists from Australia and New Zealand have analyzed more than fifty fossilized feces of the South Island Giant Moa, Upland Moa, Heavy-footed Moa and...

Oct 1, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has for the first time been able to get a complete...

Sep 25, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists have unearthed remains of a theater at the archaeological site of the Roman town of Interamna Lirenas, founded in the late 4th century BC. Digging...

Sep 25, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Two skull fossils unearthed in Germany provide the first direct evidence that lepidosaurs – reptiles closely related to lizards, snakes and tuatara...

Sep 20, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a new study published in the journal Science, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake that struck 609 km beneath the Sea of Okhotsk near Kamchatka, Russia,...

Sep 17, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Simulating paleoclimates in the Sahara region, a team of researchers from Germany and United Kingdom has found evidence of three major river systems that...

Sep 13, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

The modern-day tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) traces its lineage back to the Lower Cretaceous period – a time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth,...

Sep 9, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Oceanographers led by Dr William Sager from the University of Houston have discovered what they say is the biggest single volcano yet documented on our...