Oct 30, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of a new species of humpback dolphin in the waters off northern Australia. A newly identified...

Oct 29, 2013 by News Staff

A new study conducted in the Netherlands has shown that heavy cannabis users, who had a history of cocaine use, have increased levels of impulsive behavior. A...

Oct 29, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Palaeontology, two footprints found at Dinosaur Cove in southern Victoria are the oldest avian tracks...

Oct 28, 2013 by News Staff

Using a visual and infrared mapping spectrometer and an imaging science subsystem onboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, scientists have mapped liquid...

Oct 25, 2013 by News Staff

According to new research reported in the journal Science, potentially deadly stings of scorpions are nothing more than a slight nuisance to grasshopper...

Oct 25, 2013 by News Staff

A multinational group of scientists used the Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array in Chile to observe the Boomerang Nebula – the coldest...

Oct 24, 2013 by News Staff

Radiocarbon dating of ancient moss clumps on Baffin Island in the Eastern Canadian Arctic suggests that local summer temperatures during the past 100 years...

Oct 24, 2013 by News Staff

Men tend to slow down by about 7 percent when walking with romantic partners, says a team of scientists from Seattle Pacific University, the United States. Men...

Oct 24, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers led by Dr Steven Willner from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered what they believe is the most distant galaxy ever...

Oct 23, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers used a new astronomical software system called the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory to discover a new Type Ib supernova and link it to...

Oct 23, 2013 by News Staff

Australian researchers reporting in the journal Nature Communications have detected particles of gold in the branches and leaves of eucalyptus trees growing...

Oct 23, 2013 by News Staff

According to researchers from Italy, consumption of coffee reduces risk of hepatocellular carcinoma – the most common type of liver cancer –...

Oct 22, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists have reported the discovery of what they say is the youngest, smallest and most complete fossil skeleton yet known for Parasaurolophus, a duck-billed...

Oct 22, 2013 by News Staff

Genomic sequences of 31 Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 (HSV-1) strains collected in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia support the ‘out-of-Africa’...

Oct 22, 2013 by News Staff

A dental study of 1,200 molars and premolars from 13 hominin species shows that no known species matches the expected profile of the last common ancestor...

Oct 21, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences say they have for the first time successfully grown human hairs using dermal...

Oct 21, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble telescope to capture a new image of comet ISON, the so-called ‘comet of the century.’ This image...

Oct 21, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered what they say is the most distant gravitational lens yet. This image shows the quadruple...

Oct 21, 2013 by News Staff

An international group of astronomers has used ESO’s Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile to discover and observe an ionized nebula...

Oct 20, 2013 by News Staff

According to a study published in the journal Science, Denisovans – relatives to both Neanderthals and humans – somehow managed to cross Wallace’s...