New research reported in the journal Nature Neuroscience says that oxytocin, a hormone that promotes feelings of love, social bonding and well-being, can...
Scientists have found that most of the Magellanic Stream was stripped from the Small Magellanic Cloud about 2 billion years ago, with a smaller portion...
Q-glass, a new solid alloy that has been discovered in a rapidly cooled mixture of aluminum, iron and silicon, is neither a pure glass, a crystal, nor...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered a well-preserved fossil of a proto-mammal, named Megaconus mammaliaformis, that lived in what is...
According to marine biologist Dr Jason Bruck of the University of Chicago’s Institute for Mind and Biology, bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)...
According to a team of researchers from the United States, Russia and Spain, the discovery of a new protein, named ceramide-1 phosphate transport protein,...
Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have captured a direct image of an exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star.
This composite image shows the...
Using an atomic force microscope and a method called thermochemical nanolithography, scientists have painted the Mona Lisa on a surface about one-third...
The International Mineralogical Association has officially approved qingsongite as the name for a new mineral, cubic boron nitride.
Qingsongite is a recently...
A team of astronomers from Taiwan and the UK has discovered two unusual subdwarf stars with extremely high concentrations of lead in their atmospheres.
This...
Stanford researchers claim that our most recent common ancestors, known as mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam, roughly overlapped during evolutionary...
Prof John Longino, an entomologist with the University of Utah, has described 33 new species of predatory ants in Central America and the Caribbean, and...
Scientists from the United States and China have identified stem cells in urine that can be directed to become multiple cell types.
This image shows immunofluorescent...
A team of researchers reporting in the journal Nature has revealed that some non-avian dinosaurs had brains that were as large or larger than that of Archaeopteryx...
Scientists led by Prof Mark Anderson from the University of Iowa have found that the enzyme CaMKII (Calcium/calmodulin-dependent kinase II), known for...
British archaeologists have unearthed an unprecedented find on Dorstone Hill, near Peterchurch in Herefordshire, England – two large 6,000-year-old halls,...
A new way of measuring the spin in supermassive black holes, reported in a paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (full paper in...
