A dam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received ...

Stellenbosch University (SU) student Rohan Barnard was out on a farm in the Swartberg Mountains between Calitzdorp and ...

The story of human evolution is far messier and less straightforward than most people think, protagonized by a procession of ...

Entomologists have discovered Papilio solstitius, a new tiger swallowtail butterfly that appears in summer in eastern North America.

Many have claimed to have "discovered" the America's first. From Christopher Columbus, to Leif Erikson, all the way to the first paleoindians who set foot on the continent during the last ice age.

In the mountains of southern Iran, a new and potentially deadly species was discovered ... allowing for speciation, or the development of new species, researchers said. “It is important to ...

Despite the similarity, the newly discovered fish showed clear differences ... but today we know that they are individual species. The speciation process of hamlets is not yet complete, so this ...

She painstakingly cultured cells in a ramshackle lab until one day she discovered an extra chromosome in the cells of people with Down syndrome. This proved beyond a doubt that Down syndrome is ...

Archaeologists working at the site of Saqqara have discovered a 4,100-year-old tomb that held the burial of a doctor. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

This period overlapped with the ice age, and it is believed that the cooling of the North Pacific Ocean geographically isolated the two species and promoted speciation. By Brian Gratwicke The ...

They’re a major ass-et to science. A team of Japanese scientists who discovered mammals can breathe through their butts — a procedure that could eventually help sick humans get oxygen ...

Among those collecting their prizes was a Japanese research team led by Ryo Okabe and Takanori Takebe who discovered that mammals can breathe through their anuses. They say in their paper that ...