A multinational group of scientists led by the Wellcome Sanger Institute has discovered nine novel genes for osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease...
Two new species of dog-faced bats have been discovered in the tropical forests of Central and South America. Both new species are described in the March...
According to a new observational study carried out in France, alcohol use disorders are the most important preventable risk factors for the onset of all...
A team of researchers from the University of Washington and Princeton University has found that the genomes of two groups of modern humans with Denisovan...
According to a 44-year longitudinal population study, published online in the journal Neurology, women with high cardiovascular fitness in midlife were...
The long-standing mystery of why comets give off X-ray emission has been solved by a group of experimental physicists led by the University of Oxford,...
According to a study in mice published in the Journal of Neuroscience, reduced ability to maintain body temperature in colder environments may contribute...
An international team of astronomers from Australia, China and the United States has discovered that all galaxies rotate once every billion years, no matter...
A large-scale international collaboration called MEGASTROKE has identified 22 new genetic risk factors for stroke, thus tripling the number of gene regions...
An international group of researchers has discovered that an anomalous gamma-ray signal from Milky Way’s center comes from 10 billion-year-old stars,...
Archaeopteryx is an iconic fossil species with feathered wings from the Late Jurassic of Germany. The question of whether this dino-bird was an elaborately...
NGC 1277, a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Perseus, about 220 million light-years from us, has remained essentially unchanged for the past ten...
Our ancient cousins, Neanderthals have an unwarranted image as brutish and uncaring, but new research has revealed just how knowledgeable and effective...
Researchers have long suspected that color-changing animals like hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus) don’t just rely on their eyes to tune their appearance...
New images and video captured by ESA’s Mars Express orbiter show two small Martian moons Phobos and Deimos drifting in front of the giant planet Saturn...
High Vitamin D levels may be linked to a lower risk of developing cancer, according to a study of Japanese adults published in the journal BMJ.
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A team of U.S. astronomers has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to make a new measurement of the Hubble constant, the rate at which the Universe...
