European scientists reporting in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have identified how unique neural pathways in the brain allows...
Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) can use copying of signature whistles as a way of addressing or labeling animals on an individual basis, according...
A new study, published in the journal Precambrian Research, describes evidence that primitive forms of life existed on land 2.2 billion years ago.
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A large international team of researchers used Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite of instruments to measure the abundances of different...
Researchers from Canada, France, Germany and the United States reporting in the journal Cell have found a new ground-breaking way of killing cancer cells.
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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have for the first time directly imaged a snow line at another star.
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Scientists have discovered a marine microbe-derived antibiotic that has the ability to kill the deadly Anthrax bacterium Bacillus anthracis and other pathogens...
Dinosaurs were warm-blooded like mammals, not cold-blooded like reptiles as previously thought, says a biologist from the University of Adelaide, Australia.
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ESO’s Very Large Telescope has made detailed observations of a hot gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy.
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A study published in the June issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets (full paper in .pdf) provides new evidence that an ocean covered as...
Biologists led by Dr Don Arnold and Dr Richard Roberts from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, have released an astonishing picture of...
Volcanologists analyzing data on a 2009 eruption sequence at Alaska’s Redoubt Volcano have detected unusually high frequencies of a signal called harmonic...
U.S. scientists have described a new extinct family of scorpionflies from fossils found in British Columbia and Washington state, most prominently at the...
A team of researchers at Indiana University, using a three-dimensional cell culture method, has successfully transformed mouse embryonic stem cells into...
Researchers have found geologic evidence that casts doubt on the prevailing theory of what triggered the glaciation of Antarctica.
This map shows the present-day...
