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Scientists have found that larger groups of great and blue tits are better at solving problems than smaller ones, according to a press release of Oxford...

On-line gamers have solved the structure of a retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stymied scientists, according to a press release from National...

NASA’s Kepler mission detected Kepler-16b, the closest astronomers have come to discovering Luke Skywalker’s home world of Tatooine, according...

A researcher in the School of Biological Sciences, Kate Charlton-Robb, unearthed the remarkable findings, showing that coastal dolphins in southern Australia...

A study led by Stanford University researchers at a waterhole in Namibia, shows that in years of low rainfall, when resources are scarce, some male elephants...

An international team of researchers has sequenced the genomes of 17 strains of common lab mice, according to  this week’s issue of Nature. This...

Researchers announced the discovery of a new species of large predatory fish that prowled ancient North American waterways during the Devonian Period,...

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, during tests of new nanomaterial called nanoblades for use in hydrogen storage, have discovered that it...

The HARPS team led by Michel Mayor from University of Geneva, Switzerland, announced the discovery of more than 50 new exoplanets orbiting nearby stars,...

Researchers from the International Consortium for Blood Pressure Genome-Wide Association Studies have identified a total of 23 gene regions associated...

ESO’s New Technology Telescope has captured an image of the open cluster NGC 2100. This brilliant star cluster is around 15 million years old, and located...

Researchers from California Institute of Technology and UCLA reported that neurons throughout the amygdala, a center in the brain known for processing...

Researchers discovered 8.500-year-old fingerprints in Yeşilova Höyüğü site, Turkey, according to the Hürriyet. “We have discovered fingerprints...

Researchers have discovered why butterflies have the capacity to change their wing patterns to mimic neighbouring species and ensure their survival from...

The cause of loud sounds generated by males of some hummingbird species has been identified for the first time. A paper published in the September 9 issue...

German researchers have found that sniffer dogs can help physicians make early yet reliable detections of lung cancer in patients, according to the European...

Cardiologists at Royal Brompton Hospital, UK have discovered that scanning the heart using cardiovascular magnetic resonance can better diagnose and treat...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the sharpest images of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites ever taken from space. Images show the...

Scientists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Tianyu Museum of Nature in Shandong Province, China, and University of Kansas...