Newly discovered fossils from 10 million years after the end-Permian mass extinction reveal a lineage of animals thought to have led to dinosaurs in what...
Results of excavations at Ceibal, an ancient Maya site in Guatemala, challenge two prevailing theories on how the ancient Maya civilization began, suggesting...
A team of microbiologists led by Prof Chen Hualan of the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute investigated the origins of a new influenza A (H7N9) virus...
According to a paper published in Nature, 70 per cent of protein-coding human genes are related to genes found in the zebrafish (Danio rerio), and 84 per...
Astronomers using e-MERLIN Radio Telescope Array at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, UK, have captured a new image of the outer atmosphere of...
Troodon formosus, a small North American theropod dinosaur, incubated its eggs in a similar way to brooding birds, according to paleontologists at the...
An international team of scientists has used ancient DNA recovered from human remains dating from up to 5,500 BC to reconstruct the first detailed genetic...
A study conducted by researchers at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, sheds new light on the causes of hedonic hyperphagia, a condition that plagues hundreds...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of the Horsehead Nebula in infrared light.
This new Hubble image...
According to a new pilot study conducted by scientists at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK, a deep breath could become stress-detector.
Scientists...
A team of neuroscientists from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston reversed memory loss in nerve cells of the California sea hare (Aplysia...
A new study published in the journal Oryx shows that collaborative approaches to conservation can give hope to endangered species such as the South Andean...
A large group of researchers led by Cambridge University scientists has for the first time mapped an enzyme called telomerase.
This illustration shows...
Massive underground explosions, perhaps involving ice, have created the pits inside two large impact craters in the Thaumasia Planum region on Mars, say...
A new genetic study of the novel avian influenza A (H7N9) virus published online in the journal Eurosurveillance portrays a virus evolving to adapt to...
A giant mass of warm water that stretched out from Indonesia over to Africa and South America about 4 million years ago suggests current climate models...
An international team of scientists has used world-leading neutron sources at the Institute Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, and at the Rutherford Appleton...
Researchers at the University of Southampton have used the latest in digital imaging technology to analyze carvings on Hoa Hakananai’a, a moai (Easter...
A research reported in the online journal eLife identifies a new therapeutic target for lowering cholesterol.
Sources of cholesterol (University of California,...
