Oct 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Scientists have found that a marine sulfur-loving microbe discovered recently near Chilean coastal fault line can produce a new 18-membered macrolide antibiotic,...

Oct 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Scientists led by Dr Ralph Harbach of Natural History Museum in London have reported a stunning discovery: a well-preserved 46-million-year-old female...

Oct 8, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, to observe...

Oct 2, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologists from Museum Victoria, Australia, and the Smithsonian Institution have rediscovered what they claim are the oldest sirenian fossils ever...

Sep 26, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of paleontologists from China, the United States and Sweden has found a well-preserved fossil of ancient fish that lived in what is now China about...

Sep 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based optical telescopes have discovered what they say is the...

Sep 17, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of ornithologists has discovered a new species of ground-warbler on Luzon Island of the Philippine archipelago. Three ground-warbler...

Sep 10, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Israeli archaeologists have made what they say is a ‘breathtaking, once-in-a-lifetime discovery.’ They have unearthed gold and silver jewelry,...

Sep 6, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of biologists from Thailand, UK and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic has described a new species of flying squirrel in...

Aug 28, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of physicists led by Lund University scientists has found new evidence for the existence of a synthetic super-heavy element with...

Aug 21, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers reporting in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org) has discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet called Kepler 78b that...

Aug 12, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of scientists at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark, has reported the discovery of a six-image lensed quasar named...

Jul 31, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Peruvian and U.S. ornithologists have described a new species of bird in the genus Scytalopus found on the eastern slopes of the Andes in Junin Department,...

Jul 30, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers from Indonesia, Taiwan and France has described a new whipray species in the family Dasyatidae. The Fine-spotted Leopard Whipray,...

Jul 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Virologists led by Prof Jean-Michel Claverie and Dr Chantal Abergel from the Aix-Marseille Université’s Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory,...

Jul 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Archaeologists from the Hebrew University and the Israel Antiquities Authority claim to have discovered a royal residence of the legendary King David. Palace...

Jul 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of archaeologists from the University of Tübingen, Germany, working in the Vogelherd Cave has unearthed what appears to be a fragment of animal...

Jul 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A study led by Dr Katerina Harvati from Tübingen University, Germany, suggests the small-brained Indonesian hominin was a distinct species of human, rather...

Jul 11, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Israeli archaeologists have discovered what they believe is the earliest alphabetical written text ever found in Jerusalem. Jar fragment with inscription...

Jul 9, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from the United States and Russia analyzing microwave and magnetic-field data from solar-dedicated facilities and spacecraft have reported...