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A study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has identified critical biochemical pathways linked to the aging of human muscle. By manipulating these pathways, the researchers were able to turn back the clock on old human muscle,...
Tags: reversing, human, muscle, discovered, denmark, california, participants, muscles, young, samples, researches, men, women
A Smithsonian Institution biologist, working with the Natural History Unit of the BBC, has discovered a new species of giant rat on a filmmaking expedition to a remote rainforest in New Guinea. The discovery was made in the crater of an extinct volcano...
Tags: New Species, Giant Rat, Discovered, Crater, Volcano, Papua New Guinea, Mount Bosavi, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, Museum
A giant plant that can gobble up bugs and even rodents has been discovered in Southeast Asia. The carnivorous plant (Nepenthes attenboroughii) was found by researchers atop Mount Victoria, a remote mountain in Palawan, Philippines. The research team,...
Tags: Plant, Mice, Discovered, Weird, Huge, Nepenthes attenboroughii
A single evolutionary event appears to explain the short, curved legs that characterize all of today's dachshunds, corgis, basset hounds and at least 16 other breeds of dogs, a team led by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part...
Tags: Evolutionary Event Underlying Origin Of Dachshunds, Dogs With Short Legs, Discovered
Astronomers have discovered the lightest exoplanet ever and, in the same outlying solar system, which is the first real candidate for a world with plentiful liquid water. The researchers aim was to find a planet that contains the approximate mass of Earth...
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Paleontologists world over were stunned at the glance of the oldest human remains ever found. They have discovered prints made by individuals scrambling down the soils of an active volcano about 3, 50,000 years ago. Italian scientists identified...
Tags: Ancient, History, Remarkable, Ancestor, Humans, Discovered, Italy
One of the most ancient fossils to date has been discovered by paleontologists recently. This has been one of the most baffling cases as it’s giant head and gill-covered body make this creature truly unique. Now the perfectly preserved...
Tags: Ancient, Million Years, Discovered, History, Fossils
The remains of the first US ship that sank in World War II has been located near the southern coast off Australia! The 6000 ton freighter MS City of Rayville had been carrying lead, wool and copper from Australia to New York. It collided with a German...
Tags: First, World War, Ship, Shipwreck, Australia, Discovered
The juvenile baby tuatara hatchling of the rare reptile with lineage dating back to the dinosaur age was found on the New Zealand mainland for the first time in about 200 years. WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A hatchling of a rare reptile with lineage dating...
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