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A team of researchers at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia, has discovered 280 new craters on the Moon. Spatial distribution of the 66...

A multinational team of biologists writing in the open-access journal PLoS ONE has identified a new species of fungus that causes life-threatening infections...

Scientists from the Netherlands, Vietnam and United Kingdom, reporting the journal mBio, have described a new cyclovirus in the viral family Circoviridae. Left...

Dr Carmel O’Shannessy, a linguist with the University of Michigan, has reported new information on the structure and origins of Light Warlpiri, a recently...

European paleontologists have described a new species of spiny shark that lived about 408 million years ago during the Devonian period. Machaeracanthus...

An international group of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has reported the detection of 26 black hole candidates in Messier 31,...

A new study led by Dr Yannan Qin from the Northwest University in China provides insights into why older people were better able to fight off the new strains...

Researchers have engineered a new adeno-associated virus that could greatly expand gene therapy to help restore sight to patients with blinding diseases...

A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org version) provides evidence that an extrasolar planet may be forming quite far from a small...

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, have found a way to apply pressure to make a material expand instead of compress. Pressure-induced...

According to new research reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, the geographic context in which a language is spoken may directly impact its phonological...

Chemical analysis of fossil tooth enamel from extinct marsupials that lived in what is now southeastern Queensland 5 to 2.5 million years ago has revealed...

Multi-band observations of NGC 3766, an open star cluster located about 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, have yielded the discovery...

British ophthalmologists have discovered a new layer in the cornea, the clear, dome-shaped surface that covers the front of the eye. Left: schematic diagram...

New genetic research reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences refutes a recent theory that there is evidence for the presence of...

Dr Bhuminder Singh from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and his colleagues have announced the discovery of a new mechanism for the development of...

African starlings, a diverse group of primarily brightly colored birds known for their metallic sheens, change color about ten times faster than their...

According to the findings of a study published online in the Astrophysical Journal, a dwarf galaxy named Segue 2 is the least massive galaxy in the known...

In a paper published online in the journal Physics Letters B (arXiv.org’s version), theoretical physicists from Vanderbilt University propose that dark...