Apr 25, 2013 by News Staff

According to a paper published in Nature, 70 per cent of protein-coding human genes are related to genes found in the zebrafish (Danio rerio), and 84 per...

Apr 25, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using e-MERLIN Radio Telescope Array at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, UK, have captured a new image of the outer atmosphere of...

Apr 25, 2013 by News Staff

Troodon formosus, a small North American theropod dinosaur, incubated its eggs in a similar way to brooding birds, according to paleontologists at the...

Apr 24, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has used ancient DNA recovered from human remains dating from up to 5,500 BC to reconstruct the first detailed genetic...

Apr 23, 2013 by News Staff

A study conducted by researchers at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, sheds new light on the causes of hedonic hyperphagia, a condition that plagues hundreds...

Apr 22, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of the Horsehead Nebula in infrared light. This new Hubble image...

Apr 19, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new pilot study conducted by scientists at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK, a deep breath could become stress-detector. Scientists...

Apr 18, 2013 by News Staff

A team of neuroscientists from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston reversed memory loss in nerve cells of the California sea hare (Aplysia...

Apr 17, 2013 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Oryx shows that collaborative approaches to conservation can give hope to endangered species such as the South Andean...

Apr 17, 2013 by News Staff

A large group of researchers led by Cambridge University scientists has for the first time mapped an enzyme called telomerase. This illustration shows...

Apr 17, 2013 by News Staff

Massive underground explosions, perhaps involving ice, have created the pits inside two large impact craters in the Thaumasia Planum region on Mars, say...

Apr 16, 2013 by News Staff

New observations made with the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, have tracked the ‘rain’ of charged water particles into the atmosphere...

Apr 15, 2013 by News Staff

A new genetic study of the novel avian influenza A (H7N9) virus published online in the journal Eurosurveillance portrays a virus evolving to adapt to...

Apr 12, 2013 by News Staff

A giant mass of warm water that stretched out from Indonesia over to Africa and South America about 4 million years ago suggests current climate models...

Apr 12, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has used world-leading neutron sources at the Institute Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, and at the Rutherford Appleton...

Apr 12, 2013 by News Staff

Researchers at the University of Southampton have used the latest in digital imaging technology to analyze carvings on Hoa Hakananai’a, a moai (Easter...

Apr 11, 2013 by News Staff

A research reported in the online journal eLife identifies a new therapeutic target for lowering cholesterol. Sources of cholesterol (University of California,...

Apr 11, 2013 by News Staff

Leicester University scientists have identified the paired fins of Euphanerops, a fossil jawless fish that lived some 370 million years ago. Euphanerops,...

Apr 10, 2013 by News Staff

What will soon be the most powerful neutrino detector in the U.S. has recorded its first 3D images of particles. This 3D image shows a cosmic-ray muon...

Apr 8, 2013 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have unearthed a huge wine press and a ceramic model of a church dating back to the early-Byzantine...