The Milky Way galaxy is at least 50 percent larger than is commonly estimated, according to new findings that reveal that the galactic disk is contour...
A system for using sound waves to spot potentially dangerous cracks in pipes, aircraft engines and nuclear power plants has been developed by a Univer...
A QUT scientist has helped unravel the way in which plants regulate their levels of vitamin C, the vitamin essential for preventing iron deficiency an...
An international research team has shed new light on the diet of some of the earliest recorded humans in Sri Lanka. The researchers from Oxford Univer...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. The subterrane...
A study of how climate change has affected emperor penguins over the last 30,000 years found that only three populations may have survived during the ...
Cells control the adhesion protein desmoplakin by modifying the tail end of the protein, and this process goes awry in some patients with arrhythmogen...
Most people consume more salt than they need and therefore have a higher risk of heart disease and stroke, which are the two leading causes of death w...
Small semi-aqueous arthropods, such as mosquitoes and water striders, are free to go about their waterborne business thanks to their unique leg-based ...
Limp or firm, your handshake conveys subliminal social cues. Now, research reveals it also transmits chemical signals that could explain why the greet...