According to new research reported in the journal Scientific Reports (full paper), infertile clay in oceans of the early Earth may have been the birthplace...
Researchers reporting in the journal Climate of the Past have identified regions of Antarctica they say could record the past 1.5 million years of Earth’s...
Using camera traps, British biologists have captured photographs of the world’s least known cat, the bay cat (Pardofelis badia).
The Bay Cat, Pardofelis...
A team of researchers reported the first-ever discovery of a black hole in a globular star cluster in our Milky Way Galaxy.
This Chandra X-ray image of...
An Australian-U.S. team of paleontologists has found a unique fossil of a huge, carnivorous platypus that lived in what is now Australia during the late...
Researchers have developed a new technique that is able to determine whether a particular genetic sequence comes from an individual’s mother or father....
German researchers have developed an innovative approach for measuring blood glucose levels in diabetic patients.
A new painless technique uses infrared...
Astronomers used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to obtain the best view yet of our closest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri.
Proxima Centauri. Image...
Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology have discovered that dogs communicate more information about their feelings with their tails than...
According to a team of researchers led by Dr Silvia Bradamante from Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies in Milan, Italy, microgravity accelerates...
By using neurotoxins produced by bacteria of the genus Clostridium (C. botulinum and C. tetani), commonly known as Botox and Tetanus toxin respectively,...
Astronomers have reported the discovery of a magnetic field in the Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas that will plunge into our Galaxy in...
A team of scientists from UK and Germany used a 42-ft telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, to determine how the magnetic field...
Using an advanced computer modeling technique, researchers from UK and Argentina recreated walking and running movements of the 130-feet-long Argentinosaurus...
A team of researchers from Hungary and the United Kingdom says tuberculosis was present in Europe as early as 7,000 years ago.
This colorized scanning...
According to a new study of Arctic reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), their eyes change color through the seasons from gold to blue to help animals spot predators...
A new study reported in the open-access journal ZooKeys provides details on the taxonomy, biology, and population status of the Mortlock flying fox (Pteropus...
Archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology, UK, in cooperation with SWIP Property Trust and Endurance Land, have uncovered an extraordinary Roman...
According to astronomers reporting in the journal Nature, Kepler-78b is the first Earth-sized exoplanet found to have an Earth-like density.
This image...
A team of scientists from the United States and China has sequenced the genome of kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis).
Kiwifruits. Image credit: Hiperpinguino...
