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A multinational team of scientists led by Prof Benjamin Blencowe from the University of Toronto has identified proteins that play a key role in controlling...

According to a team of archaeologists led by Dr Nicholas Conard from Tübingen University, the transition from foraging to farming took place at roughly...

Using DNA and RNA sequencing, an international team of researchers has revealed a surprising variety of life forms living in the subglacial Lake Vostok. Radar...

Astronomers, led by Dr Nicolas Bouche from the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France, have spotted a distant galaxy hungrily...

British-Australian team of scientists has revealed the past position of the Australian, Antarctic and Indian tectonic plates at 165 million years ago,...

An international team of scientists reporting in the journal Nature has discovered a biochemical pathway that links nail growth to fingertip regeneration. Digit...

New research, reported in the open-access journal PloS ONE, has yielded a surprising result: an Indonesian species of parrot known as Goffin’s Cockatoo,...

An international team of scientists has detected mysterious bursts of radio waves originating from cosmological distances when the Universe was just half...

Our Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy had a close encounter around 10 billion years ago, according to European astronomers led by Dr Hongsheng...

Dr Marcelo Montemurro from the University of Manchester and Dr Damian Zanette from the Centro Atómico Bariloche e Instituto Balseiro, Argentina, claim...

Dr Iannis Dandouras from the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France, has found the first conclusive proof of the existence...

A genetic analysis of the Vietnamese white toothed shrew fauna, reported in the open access journal ZooKeys, has revealed a new species in the genus Crocidura,...

The International Astronomical Union announced yesterday that the names Kerberos and Styx have officially been recognized for the fourth and fifth moons...

Thylacosmilus atrox – an extinct, bizarre, marsupial super-predator that roamed South America about 4 – 3 million years ago – had huge...

Marine biologists from Taiwan and New Zealand have identified four new species of deep-sea fish in the anglerfish genus Chaunax. The Yellowspot frogmouth,...

Two proteins called TAS1R3 and GNAT3, which have been previously known to be involved in oral taste detection, also play a crucial role in sperm development,...

According to a new study reported in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, there may be as many as 60 billion planets in the so-called habitable zone around...

Paleontologists have identified a new species of hornless rhino from fossil skull and mandible found in the Tha Chang area, Nakhon Ratchasima Province,...

A new study reported in the journal Nature Chemistry has filled a significant gap in the scientific understanding of how alcohols are formed and destroyed...