Six new genetic variants associated with type 2 diabetes in South Asians have been identified by a team of international researchers.
Writing in the journal...
A well-preserved fossil discovered in northeast China provides new information about the earliest ancestors of most of today’s mammal species.
According...
MIT researchers found that there are parts of our brain dedicated to language and only language. Findings of their research mark a major advance in the...
In the course of the ongoing archeological excavations at the Yenikapı Marmaray construction site, Turkey, the world’s best preserved shipwreck, a merchant...
A clinical trial of a potential Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) drug farmed from genetically modified (GM) tobacco plants has at long last got underway...
Researchers from Germany, France and the United Kingdom have engineered a material that exhibits a rare and versatile trait in magnetism at room temperature.
Writing...
When a male rat senses the presence of a fetching female rat, a certain region of his brain lights up with neural activity, in anticipation of romance....
The magnitude 5.8 earthquake that struck central Virginia on August 23 was a rare event, but not a surprising one. “This is an area where small earthquakes...
The CLOUD experiment at CERN has been designed to study the effect of cosmic rays on the formation of atmospheric aerosols under controlled laboratory...
