Jan 23, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new far-infrared view of Betelgeuse – the nearest red supergiant star to our planet – obtained with ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory reveals...

Jan 23, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Sebastien Muller of the Chalmers University of Technology has made the most precise measurement ever of...

Jan 22, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A study led by British planetary scientists has provided evidence that auroras occur on a number of very low mass stars and brown dwarfs, collectively...

Jan 22, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Cambridge University scientists have proved the existence of four-stranded ‘quadruple helix’ DNA structures – known as G-quadruplexes – within...

Jan 21, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a new study conducted by German astronomers Dr Valeri Hambaryan and Dr Ralph Neuhauser, an intense blast of high-energy radiation that struck...

Jan 21, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Australian astronomers have discovered how supermassive black holes grow – and it’s not what was expected. Researchers have believed that...

Jan 18, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to Dr Julien Benoit and his colleagues from the University of Science and Technology in Montpellier, France, an Eocene skull fossil discovered...

Jan 16, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Alyssa Goodman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has identified a bone-like filament in...

Jan 16, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer have spotted what they say is the biggest spiral galaxy ever seen. This image shows the giant...

Jan 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

German geneticists have found evidence of substantial gene flow between Indian populations and Australia about 4,230 years ago. 4,000 years ago, Australia...

Jan 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to physics students from the University of Leicester, the United Kingdom, space travelers would not see the light from stars stretching past...

Jan 11, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational team of astronomers led by the University of Central Lancashire has detected a large group of quasars that may be the largest known structure...

Jan 11, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers from Sweden, Scotland and Australia suggests that human genome may play a role in determining the makeup of the billions of microbes...

Jan 10, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a new study led by the Warwick Medical School, people from low socio-economic positions in the United Kingdom eat more salt than the well...

Jan 10, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

New observations of the asteroid Apophis made with ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory as it approached our planet few days ago show the asteroid to be...

Jan 9, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers from the University of California in Berkeley and the Clarion University in Pennsylvania using 2.1-m telescope of the McDonald Observatory...

Jan 9, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to scientists at the University of California in Irvine, a variant of the dopamine-receptor gene may be associated with longevity. Their findings,...

Jan 8, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new species of Cretaceous bird, identified from a fossil found in Liaoning Province, China, suggests some early birds evolved teeth adapted for specialized...

Jan 8, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Amateur astronomers from Planethunters.org have discovered a Jupiter-sized planet and 42 new planet candidates, including 14 objects in the habitable zones...

Jan 4, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

U.S. scientists have identified a new class of meteorite that fell to Earth and likely originated from the crust of the Red Planet. Fragments of the meteorite...