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Jan 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

British scientists have made a surprising discovery after studying how tadpoles of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) and the Western clawed frog (Xenopus tropicalis) re-grow their tails. The discovery could have big implications for research into human healing and regeneration. Top: tadpole and adult of Xenopus tropicalis. Bottom: tadpole and adult of Xenopus laevis. Scalebar – 1 mm (Uffe Hellsten et al., 2010) It is generally appreciated...

Jan 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of amphibian biologists led by Dr Jodi Rowley of the Australian Museum in Sydney has discovered a new species of flying frog near...

Jan 17, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr Barry Molloy, an archaeologist at the University of Sheffield, the United Kingdom, has discovered that the Minoan civilization had strong martial traditions,...

Jan 16, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Alyssa Goodman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has identified a bone-like filament in...

Jan 16, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to British researchers, the idea of creating networks of members and sharing information dates back to the 16th century. The discovery was made...

Jan 16, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Scientists at Case Western Reserve University have discovered a possible dwarf protogalaxy, and another dwarf galaxy, in the constellation Ursa Major. Sloan...

Jan 16, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer have spotted what they say is the biggest spiral galaxy ever seen. This image shows the giant...

Jan 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

German geneticists have found evidence of substantial gene flow between Indian populations and Australia about 4,230 years ago. 4,000 years ago, Australia...

Jan 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to physics students from the University of Leicester, the United Kingdom, space travelers would not see the light from stars stretching past...

Jan 13, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of zoologists has discovered a gorgeous new species of lizard in southern Vietnam. Male Calotes bachae. Due to their shining blue...

Jan 11, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational team of astronomers led by the University of Central Lancashire has detected a large group of quasars that may be the largest known structure...

Jan 11, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers from Sweden, Scotland and Australia suggests that human genome may play a role in determining the makeup of the billions of microbes...

Jan 10, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered what may be the most distant Type Ia supernova ever found. Supernova...

Jan 10, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a new study led by the Warwick Medical School, people from low socio-economic positions in the United Kingdom eat more salt than the well...

Jan 10, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

New observations of the asteroid Apophis made with ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory as it approached our planet few days ago show the asteroid to be...

Jan 9, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers from the University of California in Berkeley and the Clarion University in Pennsylvania using 2.1-m telescope of the McDonald Observatory...

Jan 9, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a huge new species of ichthyosaur based on a 244-million-year-old fossil found in the Nevada desert in 2010. Left: skull...

Jan 9, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to scientists at the University of California in Irvine, a variant of the dopamine-receptor gene may be associated with longevity. Their findings,...

Jan 8, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of British and Greek archaeologists has unearthed over 300 clay figurines at the Neolithic archaeological site of Koutroulou Magoula in Greece. Clay...

Jan 8, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new species of Cretaceous bird, identified from a fossil found in Liaoning Province, China, suggests some early birds evolved teeth adapted for specialized...