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...
An international team of paleontologists has described a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Middle-Late Jurassic of Xinjiang, China.
Skull of Aorun...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In two studies published in Physical Review Letters and PNAS, British mathematicians have attempted to explain how the structure of the brain relates to...
A multinational team of researchers led by Prof Stefanie Vogel from the University of Maryland has found that an experimental drug called Eritoran can...
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...
Researchers from Israel and the United States led by Dr Noam Shomron of Tel Aviv University have developed an innovative method for physical diagnosis...
A team of scientists from the United States and Canada has created a first-ever carbohydrate-based vaccine against Clostridium bolteae, gut bacterium common...
Scientists from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment have reported the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Using observations with NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earths in the habitable...
A study of Grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) published in the journal PLoS ONE has revealed that the Moon, water temperature and even time...
