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Sago Palms, Bananas were Major Food Prior to Rice in Southern Areas of Ancient China

A sago palm being harvested for sago production in Papua New Guinea (Toksave / CC BY-SA 3.0)
May 9, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a new research reported in the open access journal PLoS ONE, ancient people on the southern coast of China about 4,500-5,300 years ago relied on sago-type palms, bananas, tubers as staple plant foods before rice cultivation became prevalent. A sago palm being harvested for sago production in Papua New Guinea (Toksave / CC BY-SA 3.0) Little is known about prehistoric diets of those who lived in southern subtropical China, as the acidic...

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Newly identified type of brown adipocyte (University of Gothenburg)

Brown Fat Cell Discovery May Lead to Treatment of Obesity

May 9, 2013 by News Staff

A new study by scientists at Sahlgrenska Academy, Sweden, shows that humans have two different types of brown fat cells, not one as previously thought. Newly...

Parkinson’s Disease Protein Acts Like Virus, Study Shows

May 9, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new research headed by virologist Dr Edward Campbell from Loyola University Chicago, a protein called alpha-synuclein, known to be a key...

Skull of Aorun zhaoi (James Clark / George Washington University)

New Meat-eating Dinosaur Discovered in China, Named Aorun zhaoi

May 8, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of paleontologists has described a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Middle-Late Jurassic of Xinjiang, China. Skull of Aorun...

Scientists have identified three genetic variations - GALNT10, MIR148A-NFE2L3 and KLHL32 – associated with obesity in people of African ancestry

Scientists Discover Gene Variants Associated with Obesity in Individuals of African Ancestry

May 8, 2013 by News Staff

A large multinational team of genetic researchers has identified three unique genetic variations that influence body size and obesity in men and women...

Artist's conception of Microraptor, a small flying dinosaur, eating a fish it has caught (Emily Willoughby)

Microraptor was Fish-Eater, New Study Reveals

May 8, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new paleontological study published in the journal Evolution reveals that a small flying dinosaur known as Microraptor was able to swoop down and pick...

Reconstruction of Acrotholus audeti (Julius Csotonyi)

Acrotholus – New Dinosaur Species from Canada

May 7, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists, reporting in the journal Nature Communications, have identified a new species of bone-headed, plant-eating dinosaur that lived about 85...

3D surface renderings of the mouse neocortex. Color codes for all segmented regions are shown below (Jeremy F.P. Ullmann et al)

Mouse Brain Mapped in Greatest Detail Yet

May 7, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Australian scientists have created the most detailed atlas of the mouse brain, a development that is helping in the fight against brain disease. 3D surface...

The two observed events from August 2011, left, and January 2012, right. Each sphere represents a digital optical module; colors represent the arrival times of the photons where red indicates early and blue late times; the size of the spheres is a measure for the recorded number of photoelectrons (IceCube Collaboration)

IceCube Physicists Detect Two Record-Breaking Neutrinos

May 7, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a new study submitted for publication in Physical Review Letters (arXiv.org version), two rare events observed in 2011 and 2012 by the IceCube...

The Little Pygmy Perch, Nannoperca pygmaea, is found in Western Australia (Murdoch University, via freshwaterfishgroup.com)

Australian Researchers Identify New Freshwater Fish Species

May 6, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists at Murdoch University have described a new species of freshwater fish from Western Australia. The Little Pygmy Perch, Nannoperca pygmaea, is...

This map shows regions of the SMU that chemists have explored and the ones they haven't (Virshup et. al.)

All Possible Drug-like Chemical Compounds Mapped

May 6, 2013 by News Staff

U.S. researchers have designed a new computer algorithm that can model and catalogue the entire set of carbon-containing molecules, and created a map of...

Habiba Kiongoli, left, and Hawa Nyakisoma, right, recording Ndengeleko stories in Tanzania (Eva-Marie Ström / University of Gothenburg)

European Linguist Explores Endangered African Language Ndengeleko

May 6, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new doctoral thesis by Eva-Marie Ström from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden is the first attempt ever to explore Ndengeleko, a language that...

Meteorite Found in Antarctica May Help Reveal Secrets of Life on Mars

May 3, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Geologists led by Dr Lydia Hallis from the University of Hawaii have examined a meteorite that formed on Mars more than 1 billion years ago to determine...

Reconstruction of Pierolapithecus catalaunicus (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)

11.9 Million-Year-Old Fossil of Pierolapithecus Analyzed by Researchers

May 3, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new study led by Dr Salvador Moya-Sola from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, is the first to examine the pelvis fragments of an early hominid...

Lobes of the human cerebrum

Researchers Try to Explain How Brain Works

May 2, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

In two studies published in Physical Review Letters and PNAS, British mathematicians have attempted to explain how the structure of the brain relates to...

Eritoran: New Drug for Influenza Shows Promise in Mice Study

May 2, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational team of researchers led by Prof Stefanie Vogel from the University of Maryland has found that an experimental drug called Eritoran can...

Specimen of Eocypselus rowei (Daniel T. Ksepka et al)

Eocene Fossil of Hummingbird-Swift Relative Found in Wyoming

May 2, 2013 by News Staff

A tiny bird fossil, named Eocypselus rowei, offers clues to the precursors of hummingbird and swift wings. Specimen of Eocypselus rowei (Daniel T. Ksepka...

Cassini spacecraft has recently provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. The hurricane's eye is about 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI)

Planetary Scientists Explain Youthful Appearance of Saturn

May 1, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Exeter and the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, has revealed how Saturn, the sixth...

PSR J0348+0432 (John Antoniadis et al)

Bizarre Pulsar-White Dwarf Pair Proves Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

May 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has discovered and studied a strange stellar pair about 7,000 light-years...

The times and vertical (y) annihilation locations (green dots) of 10,000 simulated antihydrogen atoms in the decaying magnetic fields. There is a tendency for the anti-atoms to annihilate in the bottom half of the trap, as shown by the black solid line. The blue dotted line includes the effects of detector azimuthal smearing on the average; the smearing reduces the effect of gravity observed in the data. The red circles are the annihilation times and locations for 434 real anti-atoms, as measured by the particle detector (A. E. Charman, the ALPHA Collaboration)

Physicists Attempt to Measure Gravitational Mass of Antihydrogen

May 1, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers working with CERN’s Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA) has reported the first direct measurement of gravity’s effect...

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