Sep 16, 2013 by News Staff

According to a team of planetary scientists led by Dr Manuel Roda from the Utrecht University, a huge impact crater on Mars known as Aram Chaos formed...

Sep 13, 2013 by News Staff

Two international teams of astronomers have used ESO’s VISTA telescope and MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope, both in Chile, to produce the best 3D map yet of...

Sep 13, 2013 by News Staff

According to a team of scientists reporting online in the journal Science, NASA’s Voyager 1 has indeed left the Solar System and entered interstellar...

Sep 12, 2013 by News Staff

A newly developed vaccine has the ability to completely kill simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in non-human primates, according to scientists at Oregon...

Sep 12, 2013 by News Staff

British researchers have discovered that copper and copper alloys can rapidly destroy norovirus – the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis worldwide. This...

Sep 11, 2013 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Language (full paper) provides the first empirical evidence to prove that television viewing does help to accelerate...

Sep 11, 2013 by News Staff

Arizona State University researchers reporting this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have found that fragments of the Sutter’s...

Sep 10, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has used the Low Frequency Receiver onboard the twin Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) to learn more...

Sep 10, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers led by Dr Alon Gorodetsky of the University of California, Irvine, has developed a tunable biomimetic infrared camouflage coating...

Sep 10, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists from the United States and Switzerland have demonstrated a novel mechanism for extracting energy from light. Dr Bonnell and her colleagues fabricated...

Sep 9, 2013 by News Staff

Researchers from Japan and the United States have used two digital single-lens reflex cameras set 5 miles apart to capture 3D images of Aurora Borealis...

Sep 9, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of a 6.1-million-year-old relatively complete and largely undistorted juvenile cranium...

Sep 6, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology has found evidence that ageing works through a special set of genes that...

Sep 6, 2013 by News Staff

The particles streaming into the Solar System from interstellar space have changed direction over the last forty years, says a group of astrophysicists...

Sep 6, 2013 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has filmed for the first time the deep-sea squid Grimalditeuthis bonplandi...

Sep 5, 2013 by News Staff

According to European scientists reporting in the journal Nature, bottlenose dolphins and bats have a genetic resemblance due to their echolocation capability. A...

Sep 5, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists have reported the discovery of two new species of toothed electric knifefishes that live under rafts of unrooted grasses and water hyacinth...

Sep 5, 2013 by News Staff

British archaeologists led by Dr Michael Dee from the University of Oxford have been able for the first time to set a robust timeline for the first eight...

Sep 5, 2013 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ESO’s New Technology Telescope, two astronomers from University of Manchester, UK, have studied 130...

Sep 4, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study by Prof Timothy Hatton from the University of Essex and the Australian National University in Canberra, the average height of...