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...
Scientists from the Netherlands, Vietnam and United Kingdom, reporting the journal mBio, have described a new cyclovirus in the viral family Circoviridae.
Left...
British ophthalmologists have discovered a new layer in the cornea, the clear, dome-shaped surface that covers the front of the eye.
Left: schematic diagram...
The giant oarfish Regalecus glesne has been caught on film in the deep waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Top: Regalecus glesne observed on February...
U.S. paleontologists have described a new giant species of lizard that lived in what is now Myanmar up to 40 million years ago.
Reconstruction of Barbaturex...
Doctoral student Karen Collins from the University of Louisville and her colleagues using the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) have discovered...
Four new studies of carbon isotopes in fossilized tooth enamel from early hominins, including Australopithecus afarensis, Paranthropus boisei and Kenyanthropus...
Paleontologists writing in the journal Paludicola report the discovery of exceptionally well-preserved skull and skeletal remains of the elasmosaurid plesiosaur...
