A group of marine biologists led by Murdoch University researcher Marianne Nyegaard has identified and described an elusive new species of ocean sunfish.
The...
A team of researchers led by University of Nevada Professor C. Richard (Dick) Tracy has discovered three new toad species in the Great Basin region of...
A mysterious hominin species mated with the ancestors of modern-day Sub-Saharan Africans, according to an analysis of modern human genomes published this...
Professor Abel Méndez, Director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory and a planetary astrobiologist at the University of Puerto Rico, and colleagues...
An international team of physicists from Germany and Japan has made the most precise measurement yet of the proton’s atomic mass. The result is a factor...
According to a new study published in the journal Genome Biology, methicillin use was not the original driving factor in the evolution of methicillin-resistant...
New research from Monash University and the University of Queensland has added a new dimension to understanding life on the Red Planet with the discovery...
In a paper published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, University of Houston Professor Dan Graur says that the functional portion of the human...
According to new research presented at the 2017 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, the more regularly people report doing word puzzles...
Astronomers using the 305-m (1,000-foot) radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico, recently detected ‘strange’ signals coming from Ross...
A Princeton-led team of researchers has discovered a revolutionary way to generate high-energy shock waves in the lab.
Peering deep into the core of the...
A literature review of 37 studies has found that regular consumption of artificial sweeteners is associated with long-term weight gain and an increased...
On July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flight through the Pluto system. On the two-year anniversary of the flyby, the New...
A group of researchers at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research has identified a protein called Blimp-1 as a likely primary cause of the adverse...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the face-on barred spiral galaxy NGC 4242.
This image, taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on...
