An international team of physicists led by Lund University scientists has found new evidence for the existence of a synthetic super-heavy element with...
An international team of astronomers reporting in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org) has discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet called Kepler 78b that...
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,...
A team of researchers from Indonesia, Taiwan and France has described a new whipray species in the family Dasyatidae.
The Fine-spotted Leopard Whipray,...
Virologists led by Prof Jean-Michel Claverie and Dr Chantal Abergel from the Aix-Marseille Université’s Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory,...
Archaeologists from the Hebrew University and the Israel Antiquities Authority claim to have discovered a royal residence of the legendary King David.
Palace...
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...
A study led by Dr Katerina Harvati from Tübingen University, Germany, suggests the small-brained Indonesian hominin was a distinct species of human, rather...
Israeli archaeologists have discovered what they believe is the earliest alphabetical written text ever found in Jerusalem.
Jar fragment with inscription...
Researchers from the United States and Russia analyzing microwave and magnetic-field data from solar-dedicated facilities and spacecraft have reported...
A multinational team of scientists led by Prof Benjamin Blencowe from the University of Toronto has identified proteins that play a key role in controlling...
Dr Marcelo Montemurro from the University of Manchester and Dr Damian Zanette from the Centro Atómico Bariloche e Instituto Balseiro, Argentina, claim...
Biologists have described three new fungi species in the genus Gymnopus from New Zealand.
Gymnopus ceraceicola (Jerry Cooper)
The newly discovered species,...
Paleontologists have identified a new species of scops owl that lived on São Miguel Island, the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, until about 500...
Japanese biologists have described a new species of spoon worm from the sandy tidal flat Hachi-no-higata of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan.
Spoon worm Arhynchite...
According to biologists led by Dr Bryan Fry from the University of Queensland, the oral flora of Komodo dragons does not differ from any other carnivore.
A...
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have uncovered what they believe is the remains of a Roman road that linked Jaffa and Jerusalem.
1,800-year-old...
