Apr 11, 2013 by News Staff

Leicester University scientists have identified the paired fins of Euphanerops, a fossil jawless fish that lived some 370 million years ago. Euphanerops,...

Apr 10, 2013 by News Staff

What will soon be the most powerful neutrino detector in the U.S. has recorded its first 3D images of particles. This 3D image shows a cosmic-ray muon...

Apr 8, 2013 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have unearthed a huge wine press and a ceramic model of a church dating back to the early-Byzantine...

Apr 5, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile,...

Apr 5, 2013 by News Staff

An object that killed the dinosaurs roughly 66 million years ago may have been a comet, rather than an asteroid, say researchers Prof Jason Moore and Prof...

Apr 4, 2013 by News Staff

A new study published in the new peer-reviewed open access journal PeerJ sheds light on the origin of tadpole shrimps, a group commonly regarded as ‘living...

Apr 3, 2013 by News Staff

U.S. astrophysicists report computer simulations that seem to resolve long-standing questions about the origin and life history of spiral arms in disk...

Apr 2, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers from Australia and Hong Kong using the Australia Telescope Compact Array has observed the supernova remnant 1987A...

Apr 2, 2013 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a stunning new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1068, also known as Messier 77. The spiral...

Apr 1, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers led by Dr Marcelo Wood from the University of California at Irvine has discovered a new molecular mechanism that helps trigger long-term...

Mar 29, 2013 by News Staff

A 246-million-year-old skull fossil found in Winterswijk, the Netherlands, sheds new light on the origin and phylogenetic development of placodonts, a...

Mar 28, 2013 by News Staff

Chicxulub, an asteroid that collided with the Earth 66 million years ago and is believed to wipe out the dinosaurs, may have triggered a global firestorm...

Mar 27, 2013 by News Staff

A team of astronomers led by Dr Alicia Margarita Soderberg from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has announced the discovery of a new type...

Mar 26, 2013 by News Staff

Biologists led by Dr Peter Kappeler from the University of Göttingen in Germany have announced the identification of two new lemur species in the genus...

Mar 26, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of researchers led by Dr Thomas Kipps from the University of California, San Diego, has identified a humanized monoclonal antibody...

Mar 25, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists using ESA’s Planck satellite have released the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Cosmic microwave...

Mar 20, 2013 by News Staff

For the first time ever, a multinational team of astronomers from France, the UK, the United States, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Australia, has...

Mar 18, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the United States, France, Japan and the Netherlands, has found in mice that macrophages, white blood cells that play a key...

Mar 16, 2013 by News Staff

A new research published in the March 8 issue of the journal Science finally proves that a single anti-ageing enzyme in the body can be targeted, with...

Mar 15, 2013 by News Staff

A team of astronomers has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size extrasolar planet. Artist’s rendering of the...