According to an international team of paleontologists, a Cambrian fossil arthropod found in China is the earliest known fossil to show a brain.
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A multinational team of astronomers led by Dr Joel Kastner of Rochester Institute of Technology has captured stunning views of four planetary nebulae:...
A team of Australian scientists has proposed a new mathematical theory to explain the mysterious phenomenon known as ball lightning.
Sightings of ball...
A team of biologists led by Dr Yuen Ip of the National University of Singapore has discovered that Chinese soft-shelled turtles, Pelodiscus sinensis, effectively...
Canadian researchers have provided new evidence that gamblers interpret near-misses as frustrating losses rather than near-wins. This frustration stimulates...
According to a new study led by Dr Gillian Forrester of the University of Sussex, a predominance to be right-handed is not a uniquely human trait but one...
A team of Lund University scientists has discovered that the accelerated learning of foreign languages can lead to the growth of language-related regions...
Paleontologists have discovered an extraordinarily rare fossil of a spider attacking a wasp caught in its web.
This is the only fossil ever discovered...
Consumption of caffeinated coffee is associated with an increased risk of developing exfoliation glaucoma, the leading cause of secondary glaucoma worldwide,...
A professional paleontologist studying fossils in a collection at Harvard University has identified a new species of dinosaur.
The newly discovered species,...
An international team of entomologists has discovered a potentially dangerous new malaria-transmitting mosquito.
A study, published in the journal Emerging...
According to marine biologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), a ‘vampire squid’ called Vampyroteuthis infernalis uses two...
According to researchers at the University of Gothenburg’s Sahlgrenska Academy in Sweden, antibiotics can replace invasive surgery for the treatment...
An international team of scientists has created a lifelike reconstruction of a multiplacophoran, an ancient mollusk that lived about 390 million years...
Scientists at the University of Washington suggest that early microbes might have been widespread on land, producing oxygen and weathering pyrite, an iron...
An Italian-Aussie team of archaeologists has unearthed new evidence of ancient dentistry in the form of a 6,500-year-old human jaw bone with a tooth showing...
Scientists at the Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, have discovered that people with psychopathic tendencies have an impaired sense of smell,...
A study of fire-damaged artifacts found at the Molí del Salt site in Spain has revealed that hunter-gatherer humans of the Upper Paleolithic Age recycled...
