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Aug 21, 2017 by News Staff

Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B-Streptococcus, or GBS) is a type of bacteria that can cause invasive infections in people of all ages. A research team led by Vanderbilt University scientists has found that although GBS bacteria can be transmitted to infants through breastfeeding, some mothers produce complex sugars, also called oligosaccharides, in their milk that could help prevent infection. The team also reports that these sugars can act as anti-biofilm...

Aug 21, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

A relatively large near-Earth asteroid will safely fly by pur planet on September 1, 2017, according to NASA. (3122) Florence will pass safely by Earth...

Aug 18, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

Fossils discovered in Turkey represent a new species that is a previously unknown relative of modern-day marsupials, according to a new paper published...

Aug 18, 2017 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers from the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics and the University of Texas at Arlington has spotted signs of an...

Aug 17, 2017 by News Staff

In a paper published recently in the journal Palaeodiversity, U.S. paleontologists described a new species of angiosperm flower, Tropidogyne pentaptera,...

Aug 16, 2017 by News Staff

Dr. Rory Barnes, an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrobiology Program at the University of Washington, arrived at this finding...

Aug 16, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has found evidence for a unique gravitational lensing system, in which a massive star cluster is magnifying an extremely...

Aug 15, 2017 by News Staff

Physicists from the ATLAS experiment, one of the four major experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, have found the first direct...

Aug 15, 2017 by News Staff

A team of geoscientists from the University of Edinburgh, UK, has discovered an extensive volcanic range beneath West Antarctica’s massive ice sheet. Location...

Aug 14, 2017 by News Staff

New excavations of a cave site in western Sumatra called Lida Ajer indicate modern humans reached Southeast Asia between 73,000 to 63,000 years ago —...

Aug 14, 2017 by News Staff

A research team says the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system — a compact system of at least seven exoplanets with sizes similar to Earth — formed between...

Aug 11, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the Museo Egidio Feruglio in Argentina have discovered and described a new supermassive titanosaur species. At about 122 feet (37...

Aug 11, 2017 by News Staff

Dinosaurs that roamed what is now China some 160 million years ago had two ‘flying’ neighbors — strange creatures with long limbs, long hand,...

Aug 10, 2017 by News Staff

A multinational group of astronomers has detected four possible alien worlds circling tau Ceti, which is less than 12 light-years from our Solar System. Artist’s...

Aug 10, 2017 by News Staff

A petroglyph on the south face of Piedra del Sol, a free-standing rock in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon, may depict the solar corona observed during the...

Aug 8, 2017 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of paleontologists has identified from an almost complete skeleton found in China a massive oviraptorid dinosaur with a toothless...

Aug 8, 2017 by News Staff

An unusually bright storm system nearly the size of Earth has been spotted in the atmosphere of Neptune, baffling researchers because it is located near...

Aug 7, 2017 by News Staff

In a paper published in the August 3, 2017 issue of the journal Nature, physicists with the ALPHA collaboration, a multinational project based at CERN,...

Aug 4, 2017 by News Staff

Researchers have obtained and analyzed genome sequences from the ancient Minoans and Mycenaeans, who lived 3,000 to 5,000 years ago and were Europe’s...

Aug 3, 2017 by News Staff

An analysis of the fossilized skin of Borealopelta markmitchelli, the most well-preserved of the armored dinosaurs ever unearthed, has revealed that the...