Amorfrutins in Liquorice Root Have Important Anti-Diabetic Effects
It not only serves as a tasty raw material for candy, it has medicinal purposes as well. Scientists have found that the liquorice root contains…
It not only serves as a tasty raw material for candy, it has medicinal purposes as well. Scientists have found that the liquorice root contains…
In a published study, scientists from the University of Zurich and Zoological Society of London describe how they believe the reproductive cycle of egg laying…
A new study suggests that dosage size matters when it comes to treating cancer with angiogenesis inhibitors and nanomedicines. Scientists at the Harvard School of…
At the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), scientists have been trying to recreate the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder that has been affecting bee populations…
High in the Pyrenean mountains of Spain, paleontologists found hen-shaped dinosaur eggs sticking out of ancient sandstone. The eggs, which date back to 70 million…
A newly discovered ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex was discovered recently in China. Yutyrannus huali was covered in feathers, was 30 feet (9 meters) long, and…
Ash was discovered in a South African cave, and this indicates that humans were cooking with fire one million years ago. This is the earliest…
New research pinpoints to certain mutations that may have helped the stickleback, a tiny armored fish, to evolve quickly between saltwater and freshwater forms. Since…
Lasers beams have been used for the first time to trigger and divert lightning bolts. It was first postulated in the 1990s that lasers could…
The famous Dutch impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh was obsessed with sunflowers, until he died in 1890. His iconic paintings of sunflowers fetch millions of…
The discovery of the Burtele foot fossil is leading researchers to believe that there was more than one early hominin species during the time of…
New research shows that climate change may have a negative effect on birds. A new study looked at 59 different North American species of birds…
Researchers in the journal Science have reported that they can now create a cloak that hides objects from static magnetic fields. There are a multitude…
New research has allowed paleontologists to gain new insight on a prehistoric piece of jaw from a pterosaur specimen, Istiodactylus latidens, which has been housed…
Periodical invasions of cicadas are common across the eastern United States and giant silk moths (Citheronia azteca) might have evolved to resemble cicadas as a…
Although elephants vanished from the United Arab Emirates a long time ago, it appears that footprints made roughly seven million years ago in the Arabian…
Hidden beneath mounds of Earth, in the fertile crescent of the Middle East, lie overlooked networks of small settlements that date back millennia. Archaeologists are…
In search of better thermoelectric materials, a team of physicists turned to a material NASA engineers first used roughly 40 years ago for spacecraft design,…