A molecule containing the noble gas argon has been discovered in the beautiful Crab Nebula, the remains of a star that exploded 1,000 years ago. Before...
Dr Yang Wang and colleagues from Vanderbilt University have shown a novel mechanism of cancer development through EGFR negative regulator, LRIG1.
LRIG1...
Observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed what may be seasonal flows of salty water.
Recurrent slope linea on the south-facing...
A team of genetic researchers from Cornell University and Nova Southeastern University have discovered that many of the great white shark’s (Carcharodon...
Geologists from Brigham Young University, Berkeley Geochronology Center and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found evidence of twenty ancient...
US researchers led by Dr Vladimir Dinets from the University of Tennessee have found that two croc species – mugger crocodiles (Crocodylus palustris)...
According to a group of researchers led by Dr Vincent Post from the Australia’s National Center for Groundwater Research and Training and Flinders University,...
In a new yeast study, researchers from Tel Aviv University and Columbia University have found that caffeine shortens and alcohol lengthens telomeres –...
A team of scientists reporting in the Journal of Proteome Research has cracked the secret of the black Périgord truffle’s unique, pungent aroma.
The...
An international team of astronomers announced the discovery of a giant extrasolar planet orbiting its star at more than 20 times the average Neptune-Sun...
Paleontologists have discovered a new genus and species of dicynodont that lived in what is now modern Mozambique during the Late Permian period, about...
Scientists led by Dr David Fairlie from the University of Queensland, Australia, have found abnormal amounts of an inflammatory protein called PAR2 in...
Dr Terry Erwin of the Smithsonian Institution has described a new genus and species of beetle from French Guiana.
The Spectacular Guyane False-form beetle,...
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have reported the discovery of the youngest X-ray binary ever found in our Milky Way Galaxy.
This...