New research has shown that Noisy Miners – a cooperative bird from eastern and south-eastern Australia – can tell the difference between the calls of other Noisy Miners, based on their voice characteristics alone.

Two new, circumbinary planets have been discovered by an international team of researchers.  It confirms and establishes a whole new class of planets that orbit two stars. The planets, Kepler-34b and Kepler-35b, are both low-density, gas-giants, about the same size as Saturn. They both lie on the fringe of the …

A team of researchers from the United States have coaxed single-celled, brewer’s yeast – Saccharomyces cerevisiae – into evolving as multicellular, snowflake-like, groups of yeast. They’re called snowflake yeast and have even evolved to use apoptosis – programmed, cell suicide – to create new, multicellular, life. “We see some cells …

The world’s smallest frog is now – according to The Guinness Book of World Records – the world’s smallest vertebrate. Officially?! “We have consulted with one of our experts and he has confirmed the frog to be the new smallest vertebrate,” a spokesperson for the book said, in a statement …

Two new species of miniature frogs have been discovered by researchers from the United States. They say one of them, Paedophryne amauensis, is the world’s smallest frog.

Using a technique first theorized by Einstein to predict the presence of black holes, an international team of astronomers have found every star in the Milky Way Galaxy’s got at least one planet orbiting it.

The same protein responsible for the absorption and regulation of dietary cholesterol in the gut and liver is also essential for HCV – hepatitis C virus – infection, researchers from the United States and Japan say.

After finding no companion star in the type 1a supernova remnant, SNR 0509-67.5, researchers say it was the collision of two white dwarfs that led to the stellar explosion, approximately 400 years ago.

A team of researchers from the United States and Australia have found a link between the genes that regulate iron in the body and brain structure.  More importantly, they found the link to be genetic – using twins.

Researchers in the United Kingdom have found a possible relationship between early-life telomere length and lifespan in Zebra Finches – a finding that could have implications for humans.