Sep 5, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers from Japan using NAOJ’s Subaru Telescope have found that the extrasolar planet Gliese 1214b has a water-rich atmosphere. This artist’s...

Sep 4, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of biologists has described five new species of Vesper bats from Senegal. Image of Nycticeinops schlieffenii which is represented...

Sep 3, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to an international team of scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an asteroid or comet that landed in...

Sep 3, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr Robert Gess from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg has discovered what he says is the oldest known land-living animal from Gondwana,...

Aug 21, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a beautiful close-up view of an object named Herbig-Haro...

Aug 20, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A study of 1,300 stone hand axes found at 80 Neanderthal sites in France, Germany, Belgium, Britain and the Netherlands shows that two cultural traditions...

Aug 19, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquity Authority (IAA) have unearthed thousands of pottery fragments, clay lamps and figurines in the City of David in...

Aug 16, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have established that mature-looking galaxies existed much earlier than previously known, when the...

Aug 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a new study reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, climate change may have driven the collapse of Eastern Mediterranean civilizations...

Aug 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers reporting in the journal Analytical Chemistry has developed an innovative complex method for verifying the authenticity and rooting...

Aug 13, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a team of scientists led by Dr Ross Fitzgerald from the Roslin Institute and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, cows may be a source...

Aug 10, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A study by entomologists from Bulgaria and Russia provides new interesting information on the life habits and the distribution of the giant water bug Lethocerus...

Aug 7, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a study published in journal Nature Communications, sleep deprivation can make us crave junk food more than healthy food. The study sheds...

Aug 7, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Tel Aviv University have unearthed about four hundred Byzantine coins, two hundred Samaritan...

Aug 6, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of entomologists has described a new, bizarre species of wasp that rides on the back of damselflies before laying eggs inside damselfly...

Aug 5, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority has discovered a 1,000-year-old Crusader building in the Christian Quarter of the Old City...

Aug 5, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Australian and U.S. astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory’s 10-m telescope in Hawaii have found a new kind...

Aug 1, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr Peter Jäger, a spider expert with the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, has described a new species of tropical wolf spider in...

Jul 26, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new study published online in the Journal of Human Evolution refutes a long body of evidence, suggesting that a 9-million-year-old ape called Oreopithecus...

Jul 16, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

U.S. entomologists have found a strange new insect on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. Female Caurinus tlagu (Sikes DS / Stockbridge J) The...