Feb 12, 2014 by News Staff

A new study published online in the journal Nature Communications sheds light on high-altitude adaptations in modern Tibetans. Also, it suggests that Tibetans...

Feb 12, 2014 by News Staff

According to a team of biologists led by Dr Vladimir Dinets from the University of Tennessee, certain species of crocodiles are able to climb trees as...

Feb 11, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists have determined that the end-Permian extinction – the Earth’s most severe mass extinction that peaked about 252.3 million years...

Feb 11, 2014 by News Staff

Planetary researchers led by Georgia Institute of Technology PhD candidate Lujendra Ojha have examined Martian recurrent slope lineae (RSL) – mysterious,...

Feb 10, 2014 by News Staff

A multinational team of astronomers has reported the discovery of Abell2744 Y1 – one of the most distant galaxies ever found. This image shows the...

Feb 10, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists suggests dimetrodon – a 4-m-long prehistoric reptile that lived during the early Permian period, between...

Feb 10, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers led by Dr Stefan Keller of the Australian National University say they have discovered the oldest star ever seen in the Universe. This image,...

Feb 9, 2014 by News Staff

U.S. biologists led by Dr Lee Dyer from the University of Nevada Reno have described a new plant species from the Andes Mountains of Ecuador. Left: Piper...

Feb 7, 2014 by News Staff

Robert Boessenecker, a PhD student with the University of Otago, has discovered an extinct species of whale that lived during Pliocene, 3.35 – 2.5...

Feb 7, 2014 by News Staff

Archaeologists today announced the discovery of a series of footprints left by a group of adults and children about 800,000 years ago. Human footprints,...

Feb 6, 2014 by News Staff

NASA astronomers announced the discovery of a strange super-Neptune circling a pair of orange and red dwarfs known as Kepler-413. This is an artist’s...

Feb 5, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists have described a new extinct genus and two fossil species of the bat family Myzopodidae from several fossilized jawbones and teeth discovered...

Feb 5, 2014 by News Staff

Using very precise ground-based observations with ESO’s New Technology Telescope (NTT), an international team of planetary scientists has found that...

Feb 4, 2014 by News Staff

Marine biologists from the University of Costa Rica and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute have discovered a new coral species at a depth of about...

Feb 3, 2014 by News Staff

According to scientists from the University of Glasgow’s Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, there are only four basic emotions that we all experience. On...

Feb 3, 2014 by News Staff

A previously unknown painting by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, an Italian painter and architect better known as Raphael, has been identified by Granada University...

Feb 3, 2014 by News Staff

For the first time ever, physicists have created and photographed synthetic magnetic monopoles by engineering an environment that mimics a monopole’s...

Feb 3, 2014 by News Staff

In summer 2010, European marine biologists discovered conspicuous and mysterious ring formations in shallow waters off the Island of Møn in Denmark. Suggestions...

Jan 31, 2014 by News Staff

Researchers reporting in the Astrophysical Journal Letters have found that the majority of circumbinary planets – planets that orbit two stars –...

Jan 31, 2014 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal PLoS ONE has uncovered about 400 years of intensive land use around the ancient city of Mahendraparvata, Cambodia. Buddhist...