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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...

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...

Geophysicists suggest that large chunks of an ancient tectonic plate known as the Farallon Plate are still present under parts of central California and...

Fragments of an early human skull dating back 100,000 years exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common...

Scientists from Singapore and Belgium have successfully altered the properties of water, making it corrosive enough to etch diamonds. Diamond particles...

Researchers at Yale University and the Texas Tech University have found a way of predicting whether a given glass will be ductile or brittle. A glass sculpture...

According to a study published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, the islands Reunion and Mauritius are hiding a Precambrian microcontinent...

By studying a bright blue pigment used in Ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago, U.S. chemists have uncovered clues toward the development of new nanomaterials...

An international team of scientists has used a new automated tool to reconstruct protolanguages – ancient tongues from which modern languages evolved. This...

According to a research published in the open access journal PLoS ONE, a 400k year old fragment of human lower jaw recovered from a Serbian cave is the...

Using Google logs, an international team of scientists has found that in 2012 Germans searched for the future on the Internet more than any other nation. The...

A team of chemists from Finland and Canada has been able to identify the mechanism that enables some non-metal compounds to mimic the reactivity of their...

According to a new study, conducted by Prof Nicolas Guéguen of the University of South Brittany, France, if you are serious about your flirting and hope...

An international team of scientists has sequenced nuclear and mitochondrial DNA extracted from remains of a 40,000-year-old human found at the Tianyuan...

According to a new study published today in the online journal mBio, male scientists are far more likely to commit fraud than females and the fraud occurs...

According to British researchers, the idea of creating networks of members and sharing information dates back to the 16th century. The discovery was made...

Emotion helps us recognize words more accurately and quicker, however, we do not remember emotionally intoned speech as accurately as neutral speech, according...

Dr Susan Hayes, a facial anthropologist and an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Wollongong in Australia, has reported results of the...

While most Americans replace the T sound in words like ‘mountain’ through their noses, Utahns replace it through their mouths, say linguists at the...