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Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have captured an image of a faint object circling the young, dusty, early-type star HD 95086. With a mass...

A healthy Nordic diet can lower ‘bad’ cholesterol levels and may reduce the risk of heart disease, according to a new Scandinavian study published...

Scientists at the Natural History Museum, UK, have discovered that a strange knob-like ball on the wings of an extinct bird species called the Rodrigues...

According to a research published online on May 31 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a synthetic compound originally derived from...

According to a study published in the journal Science, rounded pebbles found in September 2012 by NASA’s Curiosity rover indicate that a stream once...

A well-preserved 260-million-year-old fossil of an extinct reptile known as Eunotosaurus fills a 30- to 55-million-year gap in the turtle fossil record,...

British scientists have provided evidence that ancient Egyptians used meteorite iron to make accessories as early as 3,300 BC. The Gerzeh bead is the earliest...

A new study conducted by genetic researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign suggests that the regulatory gene Egr, known to be involved...

A first laboratory study of the heat-loving Pompeii worm reported in the open access journal PLOS ONE has confirmed that this deep-sea creature ranks among...

Paleontologists writing in the journal Paludicola report the discovery of exceptionally well-preserved skull and skeletal remains of the elasmosaurid plesiosaur...

Australian paleontologists have discovered a new species of koala that lived in rainforests of northern Australia some 20 million years ago. Skull of the...

Entomologists have described a new butterfly species with striking olive green eye color. Ministrymon janevicroy (Robbins RK / Glassberg J.) The new species...

University of Alberta researchers led by Dr Catherine La Farge have brought back to life 400 year old frozen mosses recovered from melting glaciers in...

A team of researchers led by Dr Angelika Gründling from Imperial College London has discovered 4 proteins that act as receptors for an essential signalling...

A team of arachnologists from the Sichuan University and the Institute of Zoology in Beijing has discovered two new species in the spider genera Mysmena...

Biologists from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have described a new species of black bass from river systems in the southeastern...

A multinational group of geneticists writing in the journal Neuron has reversed schizophrenia-like symptoms in adult mice by restoring normal expression...

An international team of astronomers using X-ray data from NASA’s Swift, RXTE, Chandra and ESA’s XMM-Newton Space Observatories has discovered...

A team of marine researchers from New Zealand has used remote operated vehicles to collect specimens of sea pen previously unknown to science. Acanthoptilum...