May 28, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

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...

May 28, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational group of geneticists writing in the journal Neuron has reversed schizophrenia-like symptoms in adult mice by restoring normal expression...

May 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

U.S. researchers studying zebrafish have found that riboflavin, also known as vitamin B2, may mitigate the toxic effects of cyanide. Zebrafish. The inset...

May 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

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...

May 23, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

In ground-breaking experiments conducted at the radioactive isotope facility ISOLDE at CERN, a multinational research team has investigated the atomic...

May 22, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have unexpectedly discovered that vitamin C can kill drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria. This...

May 21, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers from the Texas Biomedical Research Institute reporting online in the Journal of Lipid Research has identified 4 genes in baboons...

May 20, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers reporting in the journal PLoS ONE has detected the influenza H1N1 virus in Northern Elephant Seals (Mirounga angustirostris) off...

May 14, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of scientists from Israel and the United States has reported the first-ever discovery of an extrasolar planet using a novel method...

May 13, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers from the United States and Japan led by Prof Nirmal Banda from the University of Colorado School of Medicine has found that fat cells...

May 13, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has discovered a spectacular, large 1,500-year-old mosaic at an archaeological site...

May 10, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Languages spoken across Europe and Asia are descended from a proto-language that was used 15,000 to 10,000 years ago, say researchers led by Dr Andrew...

May 8, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of paleontologists has described a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Middle-Late Jurassic of Xinjiang, China. Skull of Aorun...

May 7, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Australian scientists have created the most detailed atlas of the mouse brain, a development that is helping in the fight against brain disease. 3D surface...

May 7, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a new study submitted for publication in Physical Review Letters (arXiv.org version), two rare events observed in 2011 and 2012 by the IceCube...

May 6, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new doctoral thesis by Eva-Marie Ström from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden is the first attempt ever to explore Ndengeleko, a language that...

May 3, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new study led by Dr Salvador Moya-Sola from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, is the first to examine the pelvis fragments of an early hominid...

May 2, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

In two studies published in Physical Review Letters and PNAS, British mathematicians have attempted to explain how the structure of the brain relates to...

May 2, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational team of researchers led by Prof Stefanie Vogel from the University of Maryland has found that an experimental drug called Eritoran can...

May 1, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Exeter and the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, has revealed how Saturn, the sixth...