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A team of scientists at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark, has reported the discovery of a six-image lensed quasar named...

New research reported in the journal Nature Neuroscience says that oxytocin, a hormone that promotes feelings of love, social bonding and well-being, can...

A study by entomologists from Bulgaria and Russia provides new interesting information on the life habits and the distribution of the giant water bug Lethocerus...

A team of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured an image of two distinctive glowing...

More than 90 per cent of human tumors are carcinomas, arising from epithelial cells that are present as continuous sheet of cells lining the cavities and...

Spanish researchers have analyzed X-ray crystal structures of seven previously ‘resurrected’ 1 – 4 billion year old thioredoxins, small...

Scientists have found that most of the Magellanic Stream was stripped from the Small Magellanic Cloud about 2 billion years ago, with a smaller portion...

According to Japanese scientists, pet dogs yawn contagiously when they see a person yawning, and respond more frequently to their owner’s yawns than...

Q-glass, a new solid alloy that has been discovered in a rapidly cooled mixture of aluminum, iron and silicon, is neither a pure glass, a crystal, nor...

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a well-preserved fossil of a proto-mammal, named Megaconus mammaliaformis, that lived in what is...

According to a study published in journal Nature Communications, sleep deprivation can make us crave junk food more than healthy food. The study sheds...

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Tel Aviv University have unearthed about four hundred Byzantine coins, two hundred Samaritan...

Using optical data of a recently detected gamma ray burst afterglow, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State...

According to marine biologist Dr Jason Bruck of the University of Chicago’s Institute for Mind and Biology, bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)...

An international team of entomologists has described a new, bizarre species of wasp that rides on the back of damselflies before laying eggs inside damselfly...

According to a team of researchers from the United States, Russia and Spain, the discovery of a new protein, named ceramide-1 phosphate transport protein,...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have captured a direct image of an exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star. This composite image shows the...

Using an atomic force microscope and a method called thermochemical nanolithography, scientists have painted the Mona Lisa on a surface about one-third...

The International Mineralogical Association has officially approved qingsongite as the name for a new mineral, cubic boron nitride. Qingsongite is a recently...