Apr 11, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a pioneering study detailed in the journal Nature, hunter-gatherers were using pots for cooking fish as early as 15,000 years ago. Left: a...

Oct 1, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Physicists at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-based Science, Japan, have obtained the most unambiguous data to date on the elusive 113th atomic...

Sep 5, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers at the Keio University, Japan, have discovered a helical molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy some 30,000 light-years away. Artist’s...

Aug 24, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A study by Japanese scientists shows that singing gibbons use the same vocal techniques as soprano singers. A pair of white-handed gibbons (Matthias Kabel...

Feb 7, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of Japanese researchers has successfully demonstrated that loss of flight has been the major driving force for beetle diversification. Carrion beetles:...