Dr Peter Jäger, a spider expert with the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, has described a new species of tropical wolf spider in...
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...
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...
Chandra X-ray observations of a remarkable planetary nebula called NGC 2392 have revealed superheated gas around the dense, hot core of the nebula.
This...
Biologists have described a tiny new species of nematode from an oak forest in Fukushima province, Japan, and named it after the German theoretical physicist...
A team of archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has discovered a fragment of a sphinx statue of the pharaoh Menkaure, one of the pyramid-building...
Paleontologists have identified a new species of hornless rhino from fossil skull and mandible found in the Tha Chang area, Nakhon Ratchasima Province,...
Genetic scientists have sequenced and analyzed short pieces of DNA preserved in bones from an early Middle Pleistocene horse that had been kept frozen...
U.S. researchers have discovered two large-effect mutations that sparked a hormonal revolution about 500 million years ago.
Two mutations altered the energetic...
The herbal extract of a yellow-flowered perennial plant known as Golden Root has been shown in a study reported in the journal PLoS ONE to extend the lifespan...
Humans began contributing to environmental lead pollution as early as 8,000 years ago, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental...
According to new research led by Dr Ravishankar Telgi from the Kothiwal Dental College and Research Center, India, consuming cheese and other dairy products...
Dr Carmel O’Shannessy, a linguist with the University of Michigan, has reported new information on the structure and origins of Light Warlpiri, a recently...
A new study led by Dr Yannan Qin from the Northwest University in China provides insights into why older people were better able to fight off the new strains...
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...
