According to new research reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, the geographic context in which a language is spoken may directly impact its phonological...
Dr Bhuminder Singh from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and his colleagues have announced the discovery of a new mechanism for the development of...
In a paper published online in the journal Physics Letters B (arXiv.org’s version), theoretical physicists from Vanderbilt University propose that dark...
A huge, cone-shaped monument has been discovered by a team of Israeli archaeologists conducting a geophysical survey on the southern Sea of Galilee.
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In a new study conducted by U.S. team of scientists from Columbia University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, mice engineered with...
The first definitive case of a fibrous dysplastic neoplasm in a 120,000-year-old Neanderthal rib from the site of Krapina in present-day Croatia reveals...
According to research led by Dr Magali Pujol from the University of Lorraine in France, bubbles of water found in Archaean hydrothermal quartz in Australia...
An international consortium of genetic researchers has sequenced the genome of the Costa Rican Matina cacao variety, the most widely cultivated cacao type...
Scientists at the Natural History Museum, UK, have discovered that a strange knob-like ball on the wings of an extinct bird species called the Rodrigues...
According to a study published in the journal Science, rounded pebbles found in September 2012 by NASA’s Curiosity rover indicate that a stream once...
A well-preserved 260-million-year-old fossil of an extinct reptile known as Eunotosaurus fills a 30- to 55-million-year gap in the turtle fossil record,...
A new study conducted by genetic researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign suggests that the regulatory gene Egr, known to be involved...
A first laboratory study of the heat-loving Pompeii worm reported in the open access journal PLOS ONE has confirmed that this deep-sea creature ranks among...
A team of arachnologists from the Sichuan University and the Institute of Zoology in Beijing has discovered two new species in the spider genera Mysmena...
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...
