Feb 10, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study carried out by a group of scientists including Dr Peter Dodds from the University of Vermont, all human languages skew toward...

Feb 10, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of geologists, headed by Prof Xiaodong Song from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Nanjing University in China,...

Feb 10, 2015 by News Staff

At the heart of the unusual planetary nebula Henize 2-428, a group of astronomers led by Dr Miguel Santander-Garcia from the Observatorio Astronomico Nacional...

Feb 9, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a new image of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 7814. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope...

Feb 9, 2015 by News Staff

Using data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA scientists have created a detailed visual simulation of the dark side of the Moon, the side that...

Feb 9, 2015 by News Staff

A team of researchers led by Dr John Lindner from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the College of Wooster, Ohio, has found evidence for fractal...

Feb 9, 2015 by News Staff

A new image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Curiosity on the rover’s...

Feb 7, 2015 by News Staff

Cyclical variations in Earth’s tilt and orbit – occurring at 23,000-, 41,000- and 100,000-year intervals – are known to strongly influence...

Feb 6, 2015 by News Staff

A group of researchers from Australia and Denmark led by Dr Charley Lineweaver of the Australian National University has calculated that there are hundreds...

Feb 6, 2015 by News Staff

A group of researchers led by Dr Robert Hazen from Carnegie Institution of Washington has found well-preserved protein sheets in 15-million-year-old fossilized...

Feb 6, 2015 by News Staff

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) have special grunt calls for particular types of foods. By studying what happened after two separate clans of adult chimps...

Feb 6, 2015 by News Staff

Thanks to new data from European Space Agency’s Planck space telescope, researchers have found that the reionization – one of the most important...

Feb 6, 2015 by News Staff

The Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare look at three of Galilean moons – Io, Callisto, and Europa –...

Feb 5, 2015 by News Staff

Biologists from the United States and Peru have described a colorful new species of water frog from the Peruvian Andes. The water frog Telmatobius ventriflavum....

Feb 5, 2015 by News Staff

A new study reported in the Biological Bulletin provides the first direct evidence that the chromosomes of a sea slug called the Eastern emerald elysia...

Feb 5, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of scientists, led by Prof Puru Jena of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has discovered a new structural variant of...

Feb 5, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has acquired new images of the Pluto system. The images, taken with spacecraft’s Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI)...

Feb 4, 2015 by News Staff

Josephoartigasia monesi – a giant rodent that lived in what is now Uruguay from the Pliocene to early Pleistocene, 4 to 2 million years ago –...

Feb 4, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of scientists led by Dr Li Tao from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, has created the first transistor made of silicene,...

Feb 4, 2015 by News Staff

A team of astronomers led by Dr István Dékány from Millennium Institute of Astrophysics and the Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, has...