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This image shows phylogenetic network of 39 prehistoric mitochondrial genomes sorted into two groupings - Early Neolithic, left, and Mid-to-Late Neolithic, right. Node colors represent archaeological cultures. LBK - Linear Pottery Culture (Paul Brotherton et al)

DNA Study Reveals Genetic History of Europe

Apr 24, 2013 by News Staff

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...

Left: schematic structure of a toxin nanosponge. Right: zoomed-in view of a single toxin-absorbed nanosponge, scale bar - 20 nm (Che-Ming J. Hu et al / Zhang Research Lab)

Nanosponges Could Soak up Toxins Released by Infections, Venom

Apr 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has created ‘nanosponges’ capable of removing a broad class of toxins from the bloodstream,...

The Shoulder Dress embodies the complexity of the design process when designing for active fibers. The collection shows garments in their multiple stages, low and high energy, enabled by future fibers and transformative textiles (© Ronald Borshan)

New Research Shines Light on Future of Fashion

Apr 19, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new research headed by Prof Joanna Berzowska from the Concordia University’s Department of Design and Computation Arts brings the future of fashion...

The California sea hare, Aplysia californica

Neuroscientists Reverse Memory Loss in Animal Brain Cells

Apr 18, 2013 by News Staff

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...

This image shows Australopithecus sediba, center, compared to the skeleton of a modern human, left, and a chimpanzee, right (Lee Berger / University of the Witwatersrand)

Research Reveals How Australopithecus sediba Walked, Chewed, Moved

Apr 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

New research appearing in six papers in the journal Science describes how the hominid Australopithecus sediba walked, chewed, and moved around 2 million...

This image shows global surface air temperature anomalies four million years ago (A. V. Fedorov et al)

Climate Models Challenged as Scientists Identify Ancient Pool of Warm Water

Apr 12, 2013 by News Staff

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...

Rosemary, Rosmarinus officinalis, at the Botanical Garden KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany (H. Zell / CC BY-SA 3.0)

New Study: Rosemary Aroma May Improve Prospective Memory

Apr 12, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a study conducted by Dr Jemma McCready and Dr Mark Moss from the University of Northumbria, England, the aroma of rosemary oil may improve...

Thunderstorms can produce an exotic kind of electrical breakdown that involves high-energy electrons and their anti-matter equivalent called positrons (University of Minnesota)

Scientists Explain Invisible ‘Dark Lightning’

Apr 11, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from the Florida Institute of Technology’s Department of Physics and Space Science have developed a new model of exactly how terrestrial...

Scientists have found a field of what could be the world's largest seafloor pockmarks. The largest of these crater-like structures is 6.8 miles in diameter and 328 feet deep (GNS Science)

Mysterious Giant Crater-like Structures Found near New-Zealand

Apr 9, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A multinational team of researchers led by marine geophysicist Dr Bryan Davy from GNS Science has found what may be the world’s biggest pockmarks...

An image shows a comet striking coastal Yucatan, forming the giant Chicxulub impact crater and causing the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs (Don Davis / NASA)

U.S. Scientists Say Comet, not Asteroid, Wiped out Dinosaurs

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...

The discovery of a new molecular mechanism that helps trigger long-term memory formation adds a piece to the puzzle in the ongoing effort to uncover the mysteries of memory (University of Minnesota)

Neuroscientists Discover New Molecular Mechanism for Long-Term Memory Formation

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...

Chicxulub Asteroid May Have Caused Global Firestorm 66M Years Ago

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...

The Isabella anomaly, IA, is at the same depth as other fragments of the Farallon plate under Oregon and Washington (Forsyth lab / Brown University)

Scientists Find Remains of Ancient Tectonic Plate beneath California

Mar 20, 2013 by Natali Anderson

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

100,000 year old human skull fossil, known as Xujiayao 11 (Wu X-J et al)

100K Year Old Human Skull Fossil Reveals Signs of Inbreeding

Mar 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

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...

Diamond particles (Jason Nadler / Uic.edu / Sci-News.com)

Researchers Create ‘Water’ That Can Corrode Diamonds

Mar 15, 2013 by Natali Anderson

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

Scientists Probe Mysteries of Glass

Feb 27, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

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...

Geoscientists Discover Microcontinent Hidden Under Lava in Indian Ocean

Feb 25, 2013 by Natali Anderson

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

Ancient Egyptian Pigment Points to New Telecommunications, Other Technologies

Feb 22, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

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...

Innovative Computer System Reconstructs Ancient Languages

Feb 12, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

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