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New Study Shows Caffeine, Alcohol Can Affect Human Genome

Roasted coffee beans. Image credit: Mark Sweep.
Dec 6, 2013 by News Staff

In a new yeast study, researchers from Tel Aviv University and Columbia University have found that caffeine shortens and alcohol lengthens telomeres – the end points of chromosomal DNA, implicated in aging and cancer. Roasted coffee beans. Image credit: Mark Sweep. Telomeres, made of DNA and proteins, mark the ends of the strands of DNA in our chromosomes. They are essential to ensuring that the DNA strands are repaired and copied correctly....

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The black Périgord truffle, Tuber melanosporum.

Researchers Reveal Secret of Black Périgord Truffle

Dec 6, 2013 by News Staff

A team of scientists reporting in the Journal of Proteome Research has cracked the secret of the black Périgord truffle’s unique, pungent aroma. The...

A forensic facial reconstruction of Paranthropus boisei. Image credit: Cicero Moraes / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Paranthropus boisei: 1.34-Million-Year-Old Hominin Found in Tanzania

Dec 6, 2013 by News Staff

A 1.34-million-year-old partial skeleton of the Plio-Pleistocene hominin Paranthropus boisei – including arm, hand, leg and foot fragments – found...

HD 106906b: Unique Super-Jupiter Exoplanet Discovered

Dec 6, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers announced the discovery of a giant extrasolar planet orbiting its star at more than 20 times the average Neptune-Sun...

Niassodon mfumukasi. Image credit: Fernando Correia, dbio / UAveiro.

Niassodon mfumukasi: Fossil of New Mammal-Like Reptile Found in Mozambique

Dec 5, 2013 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered a new genus and species of dicynodont that lived in what is now modern Mozambique during the Late Permian period, about...

Zucker Rat, a pet rat that has developed diabetes as a result of a genetic disorder that causes obesity. Image credit: Joanna Servaes / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Obesity is Inflammatory Disease, Rat Study Shows

Dec 5, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists led by Dr David Fairlie from the University of Queensland, Australia, have found abnormal amounts of an inflammatory protein called PAR2 in...

Ring-tailed lemurs, Lemur catta, in Tsimanampesotse National Park, Madagascar. Image credit: Violaine Pellicheroo / Michelle Sauther.

Madagascar’s Ring-Tailed Lemurs Regularly Sleep in Caves, Biologists Say

Dec 5, 2013 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Madagascar Conservation and Development has shown the ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) are the world’s only...

The Spectacular Guyane False-form beetle, Guyanemorpha spectabilis. Image credit: Karolyn Darrow, Smithsonian Institution.

Spectacular New Species of Beetle Found in French Guiana

Dec 5, 2013 by News Staff

Dr Terry Erwin of the Smithsonian Institution has described a new genus and species of beetle from French Guiana. The Spectacular Guyane False-form beetle,...

This composite image shows the X-ray binary Circinus X-1. Image credit: X-ray – NASA / CXC / University of Wisconsin-Madison / S.Heinz et al; optical - DSS; radio – CSIRO / ATNF / ATCA.

Chandra Discovers Youngest X-ray Binary in Milky Way

Dec 5, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have reported the discovery of the youngest X-ray binary ever found in our Milky Way Galaxy. This...

Sima de los Huesos hominins lived in what is now Spain about 400,000 years ago. Image credit: © Kennis & Kennis / Madrid Scientific Films.

Sima de los Huesos: Scientists Sequence Genome of Enigmatic Hominin

Dec 4, 2013 by News Staff

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have sequenced the mitochondrial genome of a 400,000-year-old...

King cobra, Ophiophagus hannah. Image credit: Anand Titus / Geeta Pereira / Michael Allen Smith / CC BY-SA 2.0.

Genetic Scientists Sequence Genomes of Burmese Python, King Cobra

Dec 4, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has sequenced and analyzed the genome of the king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah). The team has also sequenced the genome...

This is an artist's impression of a star's light illuminating the atmosphere of an exoplanet. Image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Astronomers Detect Signs of Water on Five Exoplanets

Dec 4, 2013 by News Staff

Two teams of scientists using the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have detected faint signatures of water in the atmospheres...

Neanderthal family. Image credit: Field Museum.

Neanderthals Organized Their Living Spaces, Scientists Say

Dec 3, 2013 by News Staff

According to an international group of anthropologists and archaeologists led by Dr Brigitte Holt from the University of Massachusetts, Neanderthals (Homo...

Erlikosaurus andrewsi. Image credit: Dinosaur-world.com.

Research Reveals Role of Dinosaur Beaks

Dec 3, 2013 by News Staff

By using CT scanning technology combined with computer simulations, paleontologists have revealed what role keratinous beaks of some dinosaurs played in...

A koala in the Great Otway National Park, Victoria, Australia. Image credit: David Iliff / CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Scientists Discover Unique Voice Organ in Koalas

Dec 3, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of biologists led by Dr Benjamin D. Charlton from the University of Sussex has discovered that koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) possess...

About 44 million stars and galaxies, among them hundreds of thousands that are unexpectedly fading or brightening, have been catalogued by astronomers from Australia and UK. Image credit: NASA / ESA / W. Clarkson, Indiana University and UCLA / K. Sahu, STScI.

Astronomers Create Catalogue of 44 Million Stars and Galaxies

Dec 2, 2013 by News Staff

By combining photographic and digital data from the US Naval Observatory-B and Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR9 catalogues, astronomers have made one of the...

Stonehenge, a famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England.

Scientists Reveal Extraordinary Sonic Properties of Stonehenge Bluestones

Dec 2, 2013 by News Staff

British researchers, reporting in the journal Time & Mind: the Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, may have cracked the mystery of why...

The Baturite porcupine, Coendou baturitensis. Image credit: Hugo Fernandes-Ferreira.

Coendou baturitensis: New Porcupine Discovered in Brazil

Dec 2, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Brazilian biologists from the Federal University of Paraíba have discovered a new species of porcupine in the genus Coendou. The Baturite porcupine, Coendou...

Oryctophileurus guerrai, male. Scale bar - 5 mm. Image credit: Perger R. / Grossi PC.

New Species of Rhinoceros Beetle Found in Bolivia

Nov 29, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Entomologists from Bolivia and Brazil have described a new species of rhinoceros beetle from a subhumid forest in the Southern Bolivian Andes. Oryctophileurus...

4.43-billion-year-old Martian meteorite NWA 7533. Image credit: Meteorites.tv.

Meteoritic Zircons Help Determine Age of Martian Crust: 4.43 Billion Years

Nov 29, 2013 by News Staff

Zircons – one of the most commonly used geochronometers – found within the Martian meteorite NWA 7533 have enabled an international team of scientists...

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