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Mar 8, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of researchers has found that cuttlefish have the most acute polarization vision yet found in any animal by showing them movies on a modified LCD computer screen to test their eyesight. A close up of a cuttlefish head, showing the well developed eye Cuttlefish as well as squid and octopus see aspects of light – including polarized light – that are invisible to humans. A study, published in the journal Current Biology, shows...

Mar 7, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has found that extraordinary large loops of matter around the galaxy NGC 5907 are the relic of a gigantic collision...

Mar 6, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Jes Gitz Holler, a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen, has discovered a new compound that targets a particular resistance mechanism in yellow...

Mar 5, 2012 by News Staff

Researchers have for the first time demonstrated that gravity plays a role in the formation of molecular aggregates, and that it can even be used to make...

Mar 2, 2012 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority has published a report on results of excavation works conducted in 2010-2011 on the slopes...

Mar 1, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A Swedish researcher has identified a new species of cichlid fish in the Xingu river drainage in Brazil. An adult male of Krobia xinguensis (Erik Åhlander) Cichlids...

Feb 29, 2012 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and...

Feb 28, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers from the University of Warwick and Indiana University has found that humans move between patches in their memory using the same strategy...

Feb 27, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Dr. Eliseu Vieira Dias of the State University of Western Paraná (UNIOESTE) has announced the discovery of a new species of deep-bodied fish that prowled...

Feb 24, 2012 by James Freeman

A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Florida and University of Nebraska has discovered a correlation between environmental temperature...

Feb 23, 2012 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the Institute of Cell Biophysics and the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy...

Feb 22, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A Spanish-Russian team of scientists has discovered four new species of arthropods in a cave in the region of Abkhazia near the Black Sea. One of these...

Feb 22, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have identified a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere. An...

Feb 22, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of sea snake in the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia. Bryan Fry with Hydrophis donaldii A paper,...

Feb 21, 2012 by James Freeman

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a tropical forest preserved in ash when a volcano erupted 300 million years ago in what is today...

Feb 21, 2012 by News Staff

A joint British, Danish, American and Jordanian team of archaeologists has discovered 20,000-year-old hut structures at the archaeological site of Kharaneh...

Feb 20, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Dr. William Smith-Vaniz of the University of Florida and Dr. Gerald Allen of the Western Australian Museum have discovered a new species of diminutive...

Feb 20, 2012 by James Freeman

Researchers at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), UK, have produced technology capable of accurate measurements of Planck’s constant, the final...

Feb 17, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers from the Center of Astrobiology of INTA-CSIC in Spain and the Catholic University of the North in Chile have discovered an ‘oasis’...

Feb 16, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Are you curious whether your dog completely understands what you say? The answer is in a study by Brazilian researchers, published online in the journal...