An international team of astronomers suggests a supernova remnant, called W49B, contains the youngest black hole formed in our Milky Way Galaxy.
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By comparing DNA of children to that of elderly people, a multinational team of geneticists has identified rare gene variants that influence human lifespan.
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According to a research published in the open access journal PLoS ONE, a 400k year old fragment of human lower jaw recovered from a Serbian cave is the...
Researchers from the Richard III Society have unveiled the world’s only facial reconstruction of the human remains found at the Greyfriars in Leicester,...
Neurobiologists from the United States and Japan have identified the location and genetic characteristics of taste stem cells on the tongue.
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An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new view of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106...
New observations of the second planet from the Sun made with ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft during a period of reduced solar wind pressure have provided...
Using Google logs, an international team of scientists has found that in 2012 Germans searched for the future on the Internet more than any other nation.
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According to a new study conducted by ichthyologists Dr Ralf Britz of the Natural History Museum and Dr David Johnson of the Smithsonian National Museum...
A gaseous compound called hydrogen sulfide may play a wide-ranging role in staving off aging, according to a team of scientists from University of South...
A team of chemists from Finland and Canada has been able to identify the mechanism that enables some non-metal compounds to mimic the reactivity of their...
Scientists at Brigham Young University say posts on Twitter could be helpful to health officials looking for a head start on flu outbreaks.
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Sexual selection can be inferred from the fossil record, according to a new paleontological study appearing in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
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According to a new study, conducted by Prof Nicolas Guéguen of the University of South Brittany, France, if you are serious about your flirting and hope...
An international team of astronomers using the Subaru Telescope has detected a stellar companion and a Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbiting the star GSC 03547-01402...
A team of Australian scientists has found that regular aspirin consumption is associated with an increased risk of a disease called age-related macular...
An international team of scientists has sequenced nuclear and mitochondrial DNA extracted from remains of a 40,000-year-old human found at the Tianyuan...
In a new study, Buffalo University geneticists have demonstrated how defects in an important neurological pathway in early development may be responsible...
