An international scientific collaboration led by Dr Ruth Loos of Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK, and Dr Erik Ingelsson of the Uppsala University,...
Israeli archaeologists excavating in the Qiryat Menachem quarter of Jerusalem have unearthed remains of a ritual bath dating back to the late Second Temple...
Researchers from the Florida Institute of Technology’s Department of Physics and Space Science have developed a new model of exactly how terrestrial...
A new study led by Dr Akash Sinha from Newcastle University has shown that vitamin D is vital for making our muscles work efficiently and boosting energy...
Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have captured the first images of a dust belt orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary system.
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According to a study published in the journal Current Biology, the vocal lip-smacks that wild gelada monkeys (Theropithecus gelada) use in friendly encounters...
Chinese paleontologists led by Dr Tao He from the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History in Hangzhou have identified a new species of thalattosaur from a fossil...
A new study published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology suggests that instead of suppressing the body’s immune response, fish oil actually enhances...
A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism suggests that a breath test profile of gut microorganisms may be able to...
A new research published in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology describes genetically engineered Escherichia coli bacteria being addicted to caffeine in...
A research team led by Harvard University scientists has measured the magnetic moment of the antiproton more accurately than ever before.
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A new research led by marine scientists at the Michigan State University has confirmed the shark specimen caught in the Gulf of Mexico in 2011 was a bull...
A team of researchers at Dartmouth College created a breakthrough device that can immediately detect the presence of secondhand cigarette smoke, and even...
New data obtained with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory point to the origin of the supernova SN 1604, the famous explosion that was discovered by the...
Fragments of an early human skull dating back 100,000 years exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common...
Scientists at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Tulane University in New Orleans have discovered a clear genetic link between fat and bone mass.
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A newly discovered binary brown dwarf is the third-closest star system to our Solar System, and the closest system discovered since 1916.
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Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an array of 66 radio telescopes located in the dry and cloudless Atacama Desert...
In a controversial paper published in the March issue of the Journal of Cosmology, scientists from Cardiff University with colleagues from Sri Lanka and...
An international team of genetic researchers led by Prof Merlin Crossley from the University of New South Wales has found the third and final missing piece...
