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U.S. researchers have discovered two large-effect mutations that sparked a hormonal revolution about 500 million years ago. Two mutations altered the energetic...

Dr Carmel O’Shannessy, a linguist with the University of Michigan, has reported new information on the structure and origins of Light Warlpiri, a recently...

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, have found a way to apply pressure to make a material expand instead of compress. Pressure-induced...

According to new research reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, the geographic context in which a language is spoken may directly impact its phonological...

British ophthalmologists have discovered a new layer in the cornea, the clear, dome-shaped surface that covers the front of the eye. Left: schematic diagram...

New genetic research reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences refutes a recent theory that there is evidence for the presence of...

The first definitive case of a fibrous dysplastic neoplasm in a 120,000-year-old Neanderthal rib from the site of Krapina in present-day Croatia reveals...

According to research led by Dr Magali Pujol from the University of Lorraine in France, bubbles of water found in Archaean hydrothermal quartz in Australia...

According to a new study published in the journal Psychological Science, the width of blood vessels in the retina – a light-sensitive layer at the...

Four new studies of carbon isotopes in fossilized tooth enamel from early hominins, including Australopithecus afarensis, Paranthropus boisei and Kenyanthropus...

According to a new study led by Dr Michael Melnick from the University of Rochester, people with high IQ scores aren’t just more intelligent, they...

Scientists led by Dr Manish Arora from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have reported that they can now use fossil teeth to calculate when a...

In ground-breaking experiments conducted at the radioactive isotope facility ISOLDE at CERN, a multinational research team has investigated the atomic...

Researchers at the University of Bristol’s Center for Market and Public Organization who studied why people choose to make large donations to charity...

Italian scientists have found abundant evidence that the world’s tallest peak is shedding its frozen cloak. A new study finds a decline in snow and ice...

According to an international team of anthropologists led by Binghamton University, tiny ear bones from two species of early human ancestors in South Africa...

New research led by Prof Joseph Ferraro from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has provided the oldest known evidence of hunting, scavenging and meat eating...

Languages spoken across Europe and Asia are descended from a proto-language that was used 15,000 to 10,000 years ago, say researchers led by Dr Andrew...

U.S. researchers have designed a new computer algorithm that can model and catalogue the entire set of carbon-containing molecules, and created a map of...