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Biologists have described three new fungi species in the genus Gymnopus from New Zealand. Gymnopus ceraceicola (Jerry Cooper) The newly discovered species,...

Scientists have demonstrated that a novel, drug-like molecule called ISRIB (integrated stress response inhibitor) can improve cognitive memory in mice. ISRIB-treated...

Paleontologists have identified a new species of scops owl that lived on São Miguel Island, the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, until about 500...

Japanese biologists have described a new species of spoon worm from the sandy tidal flat Hachi-no-higata of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. Spoon worm Arhynchite...

Genetic scientists have sequenced and analyzed short pieces of DNA preserved in bones from an early Middle Pleistocene horse that had been kept frozen...

An international group of astronomers reporting in the journal Nature has discovered two extrasolar planets circling Sun-like stars in the open star cluster...

According to biologists led by Dr Bryan Fry from the University of Queensland, the oral flora of Komodo dragons does not differ from any other carnivore. A...

A multinational team of ornithologists has discovered a new bird species in Phnom Penh, the capital and largest city of Cambodia. Cambodian Tailorbird...

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have uncovered what they believe is the remains of a Roman road that linked Jaffa and Jerusalem. 1,800-year-old...

U.S. researchers have discovered two large-effect mutations that sparked a hormonal revolution about 500 million years ago. Two mutations altered the energetic...

An international team of researchers has used new observations of Gliese 667C to find evidence of up to seven planets circling the star, including three...

According to an international team of paleontologists led by Dr Oumarou Ide from the Université de Niamey, the Republic of Niger, there was an isolated...

Scientists led by Dr Thomas Gilbert from the University of Copenhagen have used DNA from a museum specimen collected in 1955 to study what may be a distinct...

A new study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has revealed that dietary fructose (fruit sugar) rapidly causes liver damage in an animal...

The herbal extract of a yellow-flowered perennial plant known as Golden Root has been shown in a study reported in the journal PLoS ONE to extend the lifespan...

According to a new study reported in the journal Nature, the atmosphere of Mars could have been rich in oxygen almost 4 billion years ago. An artist’s...

Astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new image of two interacting galaxies collectively...

According to scientists writing in the journal Langmuir, the mystery of how pearls form into the most perfectly spherical large objects in nature may have...

Humans began contributing to environmental lead pollution as early as 8,000 years ago, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental...