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A team of Australian scientists has found that regular aspirin consumption is associated with an increased risk of a disease called age-related macular...

Paleontologist Derek Larson of the Royal Ontario Museum, who spent six years analyzing fossilized dinosaur teeth, has identified more than 20 species of...

According to a team of paleontologists from Europe and China, the discovery of a new bird-like dinosaur from the Jurassic period challenges widely accepted...

An international team of biologists led by Dr Marie Dacke of Lund University, Sweden, has discovered that African dung beetles (Scarabaeus satyrus) use...

An international team of researchers from the UK and New Zealand has discovered a previously undocumented type of eruption in underwater volcanoes. Macauley...

An international team of scientists has sequenced nuclear and mitochondrial DNA extracted from remains of a 40,000-year-old human found at the Tianyuan...

In a new study, Buffalo University geneticists have demonstrated how defects in an important neurological pathway in early development may be responsible...

An international team of scientists has discovered a 2-million-year-old species of fox at the site of Malapa in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage...

A team of neuroscientists has created a detailed map of the brain regions that contribute to emotional intelligence, the ability to process emotional information. Prof...

A new far-infrared view of Betelgeuse – the nearest red supergiant star to our planet – obtained with ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory reveals...

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Sebastien Muller of the Chalmers University of Technology has made the most precise measurement ever of...

A study led by British planetary scientists has provided evidence that auroras occur on a number of very low mass stars and brown dwarfs, collectively...

Cambridge University scientists have proved the existence of four-stranded ‘quadruple helix’ DNA structures – known as G-quadruplexes – within...

According to a new study published today in the online journal mBio, male scientists are far more likely to commit fraud than females and the fraud occurs...

According to a new study conducted by German astronomers Dr Valeri Hambaryan and Dr Ralph Neuhauser, an intense blast of high-energy radiation that struck...

Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array have captured a new view of a 20,000-year-old supernova remnant that resembles an endangered species...

Australian astronomers have discovered how supermassive black holes grow – and it’s not what was expected. Researchers have believed that...

According to Dr Julien Benoit and his colleagues from the University of Science and Technology in Montpellier, France, an Eocene skull fossil discovered...

A team of British researchers has discovered that some bacteria are able to change the make-up of supporting cells within the nerve system, called Schwann...