According to authors of a new study published in the journal Nature Immunology, a gene called the ariadne homolog 2 (Arih2) may hold the key to treating...
An international team of geneticists has completed the genomic sequence of watermelon, Citrullus lanatus.
Watermelon is one of the most important fruits...
European astronomers have reported results of a thirty-year study of a hypergiant star dubbed HR 8752 that passed through an evolutionary stage known as...
European astronomers have used ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the New Technology Telescope, and TRAPPIST: TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope,...
European astronomers using ESA’s Planck Space Telescope have detected a 10 million light-years long bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters,...
A study by Dr Stephen Curran of the University of Sydney and Dr Matthew Whiting of the CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science has addressed the mystery of why...
An international team of astronomers using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii has discovered a super-Jupiter around the star Kappa Andromedae.
This...
A new composite image combining far-infrared and X-ray data from ESA’s Herschel and XMM-Newton space observatories reveals the details of the supernova...
An 11.6 million year old giant panda’s cousin, described earlier this year and attributed to the genus Agriarctos, has been re-evaluated and considered...
An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope has detected a rogue planet, an interstellar...
An international team of scientists using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has observed for the first time one of the rarest particle decays ever...
According to a team of U.S. astronomers, comets have been colliding with one another every six seconds for millions of years in the Kuiper Belt-like disk...
Astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of the lenticular galaxy NGC...
Archaeologists, using new high-precision techniques, have come to the conclusion that first settlers arrived in Polynesia almost 2,900 years ago.
This...
British researchers have discovered that long-chain sugars called heparan sulfates play a major role in the process of scar tissue formation following...
