May 27, 2013 by News Staff

A novel aerobic, gram-positive bacterium that is able to thrive at minus 15 degrees Celsius  – the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial...

May 27, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study led by Dr Michael Melnick from the University of Rochester, people with high IQ scores aren’t just more intelligent, they...

May 24, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists led by Dr Manish Arora from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have reported that they can now use fossil teeth to calculate when a...

May 24, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has precisely located one of the most-observed variable-star systems in the sky – a double-star system called...

May 23, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has found that breathing car emissions triggers a change in high-density lipoprotein, sometimes called the ‘good...

May 21, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile has captured a stunning new image of cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion. This...

May 17, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists from Japan and the United States have directly observed a rare quantum effect that produces a repeating butterfly-shaped energy spectrum first...

May 16, 2013 by News Staff

Researchers from Canada and the United Kingdom led by Prof Chris Ballentine from the University of Manchester have discovered ancient water pockets that...

May 16, 2013 by News Staff

A new study reported in the journal Nature Communications indicates that the Minoans, who 5,000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization...

May 15, 2013 by News Staff

Paleontologists led by Dr Pascal Godefroit from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences have identified a new species of ichthyosaur from a well-preserved...

May 15, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers from Germany and France reporting in the Physical Review Letters has developed and successfully tested a form of invisibility cloak...

May 9, 2013 by News Staff

A new study by scientists at Sahlgrenska Academy, Sweden, shows that humans have two different types of brown fat cells, not one as previously thought. Newly...

May 9, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new research headed by virologist Dr Edward Campbell from Loyola University Chicago, a protein called alpha-synuclein, known to be a key...

May 8, 2013 by News Staff

A large multinational team of genetic researchers has identified three unique genetic variations that influence body size and obesity in men and women...

May 6, 2013 by News Staff

U.S. researchers have designed a new computer algorithm that can model and catalogue the entire set of carbon-containing molecules, and created a map of...

May 2, 2013 by News Staff

A tiny bird fossil, named Eocypselus rowei, offers clues to the precursors of hummingbird and swift wings. Specimen of Eocypselus rowei (Daniel T. Ksepka...

May 1, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers working with CERN’s Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA) has reported the first direct measurement of gravity’s effect...

Apr 30, 2013 by News Staff

Newly discovered fossils from 10 million years after the end-Permian mass extinction reveal a lineage of animals thought to have led to dinosaurs in what...

Apr 29, 2013 by News Staff

Results of excavations at Ceibal, an ancient Maya site in Guatemala, challenge two prevailing theories on how the ancient Maya civilization began, suggesting...

Apr 29, 2013 by News Staff

A team of microbiologists led by Prof Chen Hualan of the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute investigated the origins of a new influenza A (H7N9) virus...