For the first time, a team of scientists at Washington University School of Medicine has identified a human receptor that can taste fat.
The study, published...
A team of biologists has discovered two new species of frogs in New Guinea, one of which breaks the record for the world’s tiniest known vertebrate.
The...
A team of researchers has identified nicotine traces in a Mayan flask while examining ancient vessels from the Kislak Collection of the US Library of Congress...
A team of archaeologists has announced new discoveries unearthed at the archaeological site of the ancient city of Bosra, southern Syria.
Roman bathhouses...
A team of researchers working at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center has found that some insects such as crickets and katydids evolved their supersensitive...
An international team of astrophysicists has discovered the ruins of a planetary system consisting of the cores of two former giant planets orbiting around...
A U.S. team of researchers has discovered the evidence of complex hydrocarbon and/or nitrile molecules lying on the Pluto’s surface.
Artist’s impression...
Israeli archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of an ancient bathhouse dating back to the Byzantine era.
The newly discovered Byzantine bathhouse in Judea...
NASA’s Kepler mission has detected two extrasolar Earth-sized planets, reported in a press release from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
The...
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...
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...
An international team of palaeontologists has discovered the fossilized eyes belonging to an ancient giant shrimp-like marine creature.
Artist's impression...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Researchers have found that people with bad credit scores are more impatient, stated in a press release from the Association for Psychological Science.
The...
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...
