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.
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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...
A team of researchers led by Dr Angelika Gründling from Imperial College London has discovered 4 proteins that act as receptors for an essential signalling...
A multinational group of geneticists writing in the journal Neuron has reversed schizophrenia-like symptoms in adult mice by restoring normal expression...
U.S. researchers studying zebrafish have found that riboflavin, also known as vitamin B2, may mitigate the toxic effects of cyanide.
Zebrafish. The inset...
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image to date of the famous Ring Nebula, also...
In ground-breaking experiments conducted at the radioactive isotope facility ISOLDE at CERN, a multinational research team has investigated the atomic...
Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have unexpectedly discovered that vitamin C can kill drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria.
This...
