Dec 13, 2011 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the University of Chicago suggested that the ability to walk has originated underwater. It is known that tetrapods were the...

Dec 9, 2011 by News Staff

US palaeontologists have unearthed fossil bones of the biggest dinosaur to ever live in North America. The study, published this week in the journal Acta...

Dec 8, 2011 by News Staff

An international team of palaeontologists has discovered the fossilized eyes belonging to an ancient giant shrimp-like marine creature. Artist's impression...

Dec 8, 2011 by News Staff

US researchers found that Kirtland’s warblers like to live in young forests and forests that have been on fire, stated in a press release from NASA’s...

Dec 7, 2011 by News Staff

European astronomers have obtained the best images ever of an unusual double star, where the companion star is a vampire, according to a press release...

Dec 6, 2011 by News Staff

Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our Solar system and interstellar space, stated in a press release from NASA. Data obtained from...

Dec 5, 2011 by News Staff

The Kepler mission has discovered the first super-Earth in the habitable zone of a distant Sun-like star, according to NASA. The newly found planet Kepler-22b...

Dec 5, 2011 by News Staff

A team of astronomers has discovered 18 Jupiter-like planets in orbit around massive stars, stated in a press release from the California Institute of...

Dec 5, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers have found that people with bad credit scores are more impatient, stated in a press release from the Association for Psychological Science. The...

Dec 1, 2011 by News Staff

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced today new proposed names for elements 114 and 116, stated in a press release from the Lawrence...

Nov 30, 2011 by News Staff

Scientists from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that the atmosphere of Earth just 500 million years after its creation was not a methane-filled...

Nov 30, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from the University of Nottingham have found that a microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans, which is biologically very similar to the human...

Nov 30, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from Keio University, Japan, have succeeded in creating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) from the blood of people aged 110 or older, aiming...

Nov 29, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers have found that players who head the ball with high frequency have brain abnormalities similar to those found in traumatic brain injury patients,...

Nov 29, 2011 by News Staff

Norwegian researchers have found that even small changes in pub and bar closing hours seem to affect the number of violent incidents, stated in a press...

Nov 28, 2011 by News Staff

Original thinkers are more likely to cheat than less creative people, possibly because this talent increases their ability to rationalize their actions,...

Nov 28, 2011 by News Staff

A team of experts has created a reproduction of a 1704 Stradivarius violin, using computed tomography imaging and advanced manufacturing techniques. Original...

Nov 25, 2011 by News Staff

Professor Sue O’Connor from Australian National University has uncovered the world’s oldest evidence of deep sea fishing at a site in East Timor. The...

Nov 24, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found that a group of volunteers who consumed a serving of canned soup each day for five consecutive...

Nov 23, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, found further proof that the wolf ancestors of today’s domesticated dogs can be traced...