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...

Apr 30, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from Israel and the United States led by Dr Noam Shomron of Tel Aviv University have developed an innovative method for physical diagnosis...

Apr 29, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

French researchers have determined that the temperature of the Earth’s core is 10,800 degrees Fahrenheit (6,000 oC) – about 1,800 oF (1,000 oC)...

Apr 26, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of scientists from the United States and Canada has created a first-ever carbohydrate-based vaccine against Clostridium bolteae, gut bacterium common...

Apr 25, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Scientists from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment have reported the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays...

Apr 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

NASA scientists have released the clearest view yet of the comet ISON, a newly discovered sungrazing comet that may light up the sky later this year. This...

Apr 23, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a study accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (arXiv.org version), a blazar called PKS 1424+240 is the most distant...

Apr 23, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers at the European Space Agency have released a new view of the Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. This color view of Enceladus was taken by Cassini...

Apr 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has created ‘nanosponges’ capable of removing a broad class of toxins from the bloodstream,...

Apr 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Using observations with NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earths in the habitable...

Apr 18, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the most detailed view yet of the supernova SN 1006. X-ray image of the SN 1006...

Apr 17, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A study of Grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) published in the journal PLoS ONE has revealed that the Moon, water temperature and even time...

Apr 17, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A study published in the journal Neurology shows that, in some families, only one gene may be responsible for fainting, also known as vasovagal syncope. Fainting...

Apr 16, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers at the Rockefeller University and a pharmaceutical company have developed a new antibiotic that kills a wide range of bacteria, including methicillin-resistant...