Known as ENIGMA ,the project pools data from more than 200 researchers, at more than 100 institutions, worldwide.
Read More »Portrait of a deadly encounter
A small fish found in the pterosaur’s throat may be what led to the deadly – and surprisingly common – encounter between the flying dinosaur and the predator fish.
Read More »Viking explorers brought unlikely pillagers with them
After analyzing the mitochondrial DNA from Viking age and modern-day mice found in Iceland, Greenland and eastern Canada, an international team of researchers have found mice colonized the islands, alongside the Vikings.
Read More »Gairdner award winners announced
The winners have helped us to better understand how our body clock ticks, what drives spinal cord development, how our immune systems work and ways we can give it a boost.
Read More »Syrian settlements mapped from space
Using images snapped by NASA’s Terra satellite, researchers from Harvard and MIT have mapped more than 14,000 archaeological settlements across northeastern Syria.
Read More »Killer whales prey items in Canada’s North studied for the first time
A team of Canadian researchers have melded scientific method with traditional Inuit knowledge, to give us our first glance at what killer whales are dining on and how they’re doing it, in Canada’s North.
Read More »Most primitive vertebrate found in the Burgess Shale
Researchers from Canada and the United Kingdom have described the most primative vertebrate – an eel-like creature from Yoho National Park.
Read More »Otzi’s entire genome sequenced for the first time
An international team of researchers has sequenced the entire genome of the Tyrolean Iceman, uncovering a plethora of information about his ancestry, identity and his health – he’s even stepped into record books as the oldest documented case of lyme disease in humans.
Read More »Giant penguin fossils reveal ‘elegant’ shape
Researchers have characterized the near complete fossils of two species of giant penguins. The fossils are so complete, researchers were able to create a sketch of the bird that went extinct nearly 27 million years ago
Read More »Why Dung Beetles dance for their dinner
Dung Beetles love poop – surprise, we know. What isn’t known, is why they dance while they’re rolling their dinner home to safety – until now. A team of researchers from Sweden and South Africa have answered the question and Science-Fare.com’s Lee Flohr, spoke to Emily Baird, study co-author and …
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