A new study reported in the journal Nature Chemistry has filled a significant gap in the scientific understanding of how alcohols are formed and destroyed...
Israeli archaeologists have unearthed four artifacts that they believe date back to the time of the siege of Jerusalem in the 1st century CE.
The siege...
Scientists have demonstrated that a novel, drug-like molecule called ISRIB (integrated stress response inhibitor) can improve cognitive memory in mice.
ISRIB-treated...
An international team of researchers has used new observations of Gliese 667C to find evidence of up to seven planets circling the star, including three...
According to an international team of paleontologists led by Dr Oumarou Ide from the Université de Niamey, the Republic of Niger, there was an isolated...
A new study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has revealed that dietary fructose (fruit sugar) rapidly causes liver damage in an animal...
According to a new study reported in the journal Nature, the atmosphere of Mars could have been rich in oxygen almost 4 billion years ago.
An artist’s...
According to scientists writing in the journal Langmuir, the mystery of how pearls form into the most perfectly spherical large objects in nature may have...
A team of researchers at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia, has discovered 280 new craters on the Moon.
Spatial distribution of the 66...
A multinational team of biologists writing in the open-access journal PLoS ONE has identified a new species of fungus that causes life-threatening infections...
A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org version) provides evidence that an extrasolar planet may be forming quite far from a small...
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.
The...
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...
