Feb 25, 2015 by News Staff

In a new study published in the journal Physics of Fluids, a team of researchers has found that a few layers of foam can significantly dampen the sloshing...

Feb 25, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has described three new species of caimans that lived in the swampy waters of what is now northeastern Peru during...

Feb 25, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists led by Dr David Hu from the Georgia Institute of Technology has discovered that humans and 21 species of mammals – from hedgehogs,...

Feb 24, 2015 by News Staff

According to a group of ornithologists headed by Dr Lysanne Snijders of Wageningen University, the Netherlands, great tits living next to each other may...

Feb 24, 2015 by News Staff

Every year, millions of tons of dust from the Sahara desert cross the Atlantic Ocean, bringing vital phosphorus and other fertilizers to depleted Amazon...

Feb 24, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational group of entomologists led by Dr Thomas Hertach from the University of Basel has discovered a new species of singing cicada that occurs...

Feb 24, 2015 by News Staff

The chicks of an Amazonian bird called the Cinereous mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra) mimic toxic, hairy caterpillars of the flannel moths both in appearance...

Feb 24, 2015 by News Staff

According to experts from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the critically endangered Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) – one of ten living...

Feb 23, 2015 by News Staff

This new image from the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases NGC 4424, a 12th magnitude barred spiral galaxy...

Feb 23, 2015 by News Staff

According to a group of genetic scientists led by Prof Victor Albert of the University at Buffalo, the carnivorous plant Utricularia gibba, commonly known...

Feb 23, 2015 by News Staff

Almost 2,000 gold coins, discovered by amateur divers near the port city of Caesarea in Israel, form the largest single hoard of medieval gold coins ever...

Feb 23, 2015 by News Staff

Using the unique observing capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have produced the most detailed picture so far of an edge-on...

Feb 23, 2015 by News Staff

Using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) X-ray telescopes, astronomers have discovered that the super-fast...

Feb 21, 2015 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Science Advances strengthens the view that human settlements of all times and places function in the same way by manifesting...

Feb 21, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study led by Dr Neil Harrison of the University of Sussex, UK, humans are susceptible to the so-called temperature contagion. Windbeeches...

Feb 20, 2015 by News Staff

The Solar System’s movement through a dark-matter halo enveloping our Milky Way Galaxy may perturb the orbits of comets and lead to additional heating...

Feb 20, 2015 by News Staff

ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has obtained a spectacular color image of the southernmost portion of Phlegra Montes, a mountain range in the Cebrenia quadrangle...

Feb 20, 2015 by News Staff

A study reported in the journal Science provides new support for the so-called Cope’s rule – a theory in biology that states that animals tend...

Feb 20, 2015 by News Staff

A new study of elliptical galaxies led by Dr Akos Bogdan of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has revealed a surprising link between galaxies’...

Feb 20, 2015 by News Staff

Paleontologists Dean Lomax of the University of Manchester, UK, and Prof Judy Massare of Brockport College in New York have discovered a new species of...