According to a team of scientists from the United States, Finland, Australia and Germany, the Antarctic Ice Sheet began melting about 5,000 years earlier...
An immensely long (7–8 mm) and slender (15 μm) ovipositor of the parasitic fig wasp Apocrypta westwoodi is equipped with a sharp, zinc-coated tip, ready...
Cats eat more during the winter and owners should give their pet more food during this time, a four-year observational study of 38 adult colony cats has...
A multinational team of researchers led by Dr Philipp Khaitovich from Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has suggested...
According to new research reported in the journal Nature Communications, light-colored insects are out-competing darker-colored ones in the face of climate...
An international team of researchers has documented a previously unknown multi-country migration of Burchell’s zebra (Equus quagga) that is the longest...
Deep, ancient soils, dating to between 15,000 and 13,500 years old, contain significant amounts of carbon and could contribute to climate change as the...
A new study published in the journal Science has shown that fruit flies (Drosophila sp.) think before they act.
The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster....
According to a team of astrophysicists led by Eric Lerner from Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, the Universe is not expanding at all.
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According to new genetic research reported in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, populations of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in North...
An awesome mammal from Colombia and Ecuador, a leaf-tailed gecko from Australia and a snail with semi-transparent shell from Croatia are among the new...
A group of astronomers led by Dr Avishay Gal-Yam from Weizmann Institute of Science has identified a mysterious Wolf-Rayet star as the likely progenitor...
Genetic researchers led by Dr Jürgen Liebig of Arizona State University have sequenced the genome of the Nevada dampwood termite (Zootermopsis nevadensis).
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An international group of astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a new image of NGC 3590.
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Entomologists have described a new species of praying mantis from Nyungwe National Park, the Republic of Rwanda.
Dystacta tigrifrutex, female. Image credit:...
The Clarion Nightsnake (Hypsiglena unaocularus) – a nocturnal snake species that was initially discovered in 1936 and then struck from the scientific...
A group of archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology digging at the site of the U.S. Embassy in Vauxhall, South London, has discovered flint...
Geologists from France and the United States have discovered that the island of O’ahu consists of three major volcanoes, not two, as previously thought.
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An international team of scientists headed by Prof Steve Rose from Imperial College in London, UK, has discovered how to create matter from light.
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