Jan 14, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has discovered a new dichromatic species of bat in the Guinean Nimba Mountains belonging in the genus Myotis. An artist’s...

Jan 14, 2021 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the United Kingdom and Spain has demonstrated that a technique called fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy in conjunction...

Jan 13, 2021 by News Staff

An active galactic nucleus in the center of ESO 253-G003, an active galaxy over 570 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Pictor, erupts...

Jan 13, 2021 by News Staff

New research led by the University of Helsinki suggests that dog domestication needs to be understood in terms of competition over resources in the particularly...

Jan 12, 2021 by News Staff

Paleontologists have described the first three-dimensional preservation of soft tissue in Namacalathus hermanastes, a skeletal metazoan (multicellular...

Jan 12, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a massive starburst galaxy with a tail of star-forming gas in...

Jan 12, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have studied Swift J1818.0-1607, a new magnetar (a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful...

Jan 12, 2021 by News Staff

A team of physicists from the United States and Japan has experimentally observed a phenomenon called quantum oscillation in a two-dimensional topological...

Jan 12, 2021 by News Staff

A spectacular new image, taken with the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-m Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, shows the spiral galaxy NGC 1003 and a collection...

Jan 11, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists has discovered a large collection of 2-million-year-old stone tools, fossilized bones...

Jan 8, 2021 by News Staff

A team of researchers from Germany, Denmark and the United Kingdom has identified circadian rhythms in non-photosynthetic, Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus...

Jan 7, 2021 by News Staff

A team of researchers in China has demonstrated an integrated space-to-ground quantum communication network that combines a large-scale fiber network of...

Jan 7, 2021 by News Staff

Monotremes (egg-laying mammals) are the only extant mammalian outgroup to therians (marsupial and eutherian animals) and provide key insights into mammalian...

Jan 7, 2021 by News Staff

In a study published in the journal JCI Insight, 6-gingerol, the most abundant bioactive compound of ginger root, lowered autoantibody production and helped...

Jan 6, 2021 by News Staff

Artificial chromatophores that change color when exposed to light may lead to new military camouflage, soft robotics, and flexible displays. This invention...

Jan 6, 2021 by News Staff

New research from University College London suggests that how we learn about the world around us can be more important for how we feel than rewards we...

Jan 6, 2021 by News Staff

Using a technique called confocal microscopy, a team of scientists from Germany and the Netherlands has found that suspensions of ellipsoidal colloids...

Jan 6, 2021 by News Staff

Formerly thought to be ‘junk DNA,’ microRNAs (miRNAs) are small chains of about two dozen non-coding nucleotides. They are emerging as important regulators...

Jan 5, 2021 by News Staff

Ultra-impulsive acoustic emission from a solar flare recently detected by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) indicated submersion of its source...

Jan 5, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of experimental and theoretical physicists from Austria and Switzerland has investigated what happens when a dipolar supersolid is...