According to a team of physicists at Imperial College London (ICL), UK, it is possible to create a new form of light by binding light to a single electron,...
An international team of astronomers has found that there is a huge region in the inner part of the Galactic disc that is devoid of stars known as Cepheids.
An...
A team of researchers at the University of Toronto, Canada, has created a battery that stores energy in a biologically derived unit. The team’s paper...
According to an international team of scientists led by Dr. Nicholas Mundy at the University of Cambridge, a gene for red color vision that originated...
Amateur archaeologist has found a beautifully crafted miniature bronze figure of the Roman goddess Ceres at Arbeia Roman Fort in South Shields, UK.
Councilor...
A team of researchers has identified 17 genetic variations associated with depression in individuals of European ancestry.
The team identified 17 new genetic...
While the famous Minoan culture was just beginning, woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) were disappearing from Saint Paul Island, according to a group...
The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, while Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago. Some cosmologists think this time gap means that life on other planets...
An international team of researchers and engineers from South Korea and the United States has developed a solar cell that efficiently converts carbon dioxide...
Almost a month after slipping into orbit around the Solar System’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is nearing a turning point.
Juno. Image credit:...
A group of Japanese entomologists has described and named four new species of the ant genus Pheidole from the tropical rainforests of Papua New Guinea...
A team of paleontologists led by Dr. Patrick Randolph-Quinney from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in Johannesburg, South Africa,...
An international team of paleontologists headed by Prof. Mark Purnell of the University of Leicester, UK, and Dr. Yuan Wang from the Institute of Vertebrate...
Rocky, an eleven-year-old male orangutan living at Indianapolis Zoo, offers clues to how human speech evolved, according to new research led by Durham...
An international team of astronomers led by Texas Tech University scientist Dr. Christopher Britt has spotted a very young star, called CXOGBS J173643.8-282122...
Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a new type of binary star, in which a rapidly-spinning white dwarf star sweeps powerful beams of...
The gaseous halo of our Milky Way Galaxy is spinning in the same direction and at a similar speed as the Galaxy’s disk, which contains stars, planets,...
New research is casting doubt on a widely held belief about how cells use DNA to make proteins.
DNA molecule. Image credit: Christoph Bock, Max Planck...
Led by University of Texas Medical Branch researcher Prof. Scott Weaver, an international team of scientists is the first to directly connect Aedes aegypti...
