Apr 25, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of researchers from Spain and the United Kingdom has found that a caterpillar of the greater wax moth (Galleria mellonella) —...

Apr 25, 2017 by News Staff

According to a new study, physical activity can lower the risk of myocardial damage in middle-aged and older adults and reduce the levels of myocardial...

Apr 24, 2017 by News Staff

Many stars show tails that trail behind them like a comet’s tail, supporting the idea that our own Solar System has one too. However, new evidence from...

Apr 24, 2017 by News Staff

Deprived of oxygen, African naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) can survive by metabolizing a type of sugar called fructose just as plants do, a new...

Apr 24, 2017 by News Staff

This view from NASA’s Cassini orbiter shows Earth and its only natural satellite as points of light between the icy rings of the gas giant Saturn. Cassini...

Apr 23, 2017 by News Staff

An Australian National University-led team of researchers has found that Homo floresiensis — a dwarfed human species that lived until about 50,000...

Apr 21, 2017 by News Staff

The powerful vision of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to analyze for the first time the multiple images of a gravitationally...

Apr 21, 2017 by News Staff

A team of researchers at the University of Oxford’s Department of Zoology has shown that the elements of the capacity of humans to build on the work...

Apr 20, 2017 by News Staff

In celebration of the 27th anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 1990, astronomers used the legendary telescope to take a...

Apr 20, 2017 by News Staff

Genetic scientists from the University of California, Riverside, and the W.M. Keck Science Department of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges,...

Apr 20, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of scientists from the United States and India has discovered that a component of the skin mucus secreted by a South Indian fungoid...

Apr 20, 2017 by News Staff

Eurypterids, better known as sea scorpions, used their serrated-spine-tipped tails to dispatch their prey, according to new research by University of Alberta...

Apr 19, 2017 by News Staff

According to a study published recently in the Journals of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, drinking a beetroot juice before exercise makes the brain of...

Apr 18, 2017 by News Staff

According to new research, Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) are able to recognize their own bodies as obstacles to success in problem-solving, further...

Apr 18, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of marine biologists, led by researchers at Northeastern University and the University of Utah, is the first to investigate a never...

Apr 18, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers and astrophysicists, led by University of Utah, has detected supermassive black holes in two ultra-compact dwarf galaxies:...

Apr 18, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of physicists from the United States, Japan, and China has created a fluid with negative mass, which is exactly what it sounds like....

Apr 17, 2017 by News Staff

A study by Dr. Siegfried Eggl of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Dr. Max Popp of Princeton University and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology...

Apr 17, 2017 by News Staff

A new image taken recently by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a faint and wispy shell of gas in the constellation of Canis Major. This Hubble...

Apr 14, 2017 by News Staff

Recent observations of Europa by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a plume of material erupting from the moon’s surface at precisely...