A rare translucent pink fish, surprisingly alive in an extreme condition beneath Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Researchers have discovered fish, crustaceans and jellyfish, safe and sound deep beneath Antarctic ice shelf. The stunning discovery came on January 15, when a team of researchers found live fish and other aquatic animals inhabiting one of the world’s most extreme ecosystems under a 740-meter... 

A four-year-old Australian boy has received the world’s first treatment for managing type 1 diabetes after doctors fitted him with an artificial pancreas. The new device, which looks like an mp3 player, was attached to Xavier Hames’s body using several tubes inserted under his skin, Australian health officials said on Wednesday. The four-year-old became the first patient to use the new device... 

Scientists have discovered a strange and microscopic “living balloon” in the outer levels of the Earth’s atmosphere, which they say hints at the existence of alien life. Researchers at the University of Sheffield and University of Buckingham Center for Astrobiology said the spectral-like structure, dubbed “ghost particle”, might have carried microscopic alien organisms, International... 

A human embryo clone used in stem cell research. A novel embryonic stem cell therapy has apparently proved successful as a woman who has received the treatment for a severe heart failure has been reported “well” by doctors. The patient’s cardiologist, Philippe Menasche of the Georges-Pompidou European Hospital in Paris, presented the positive results on Friday, saying she was doing “well”... 

This image is a side view of “Paraphronima gracilis” showing the enormous mostly transparent eyes, row of orange retinas and transparent body with developing gonads (white). Researchers say that the eyes of a type of a tiny deep-sea crustacean are comprised of two rows of 16 distinct red retinas to see better in the dark. According to Smithsonian Science website, a detailed study into the marine... 

Agriculture personnel cull geese at a farm in Chiayi county, southern Taiwan, January 11, 2015. A third highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza has been detected in southern Taiwan. The Taiwan Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine said Friday that for the first time in Taiwan avian influenza virus H5N3 has been identified on two goose farms in the southern cities of Kaohsiung... 

Scientists have taken crucial steps in their quest for finding a remedy for HIV by finding clues about how the virus manages to evade detection after being suppressed by drugs. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, made the announcement on Wednesday after they analyzed blood samples from 25 patients with the human immunodeficiency virus, AFP reported. After... 

2014’s accomplishments have uncovered new facts from Earth’s early days, as well as opened new horizons – in tiny cells and vast space exploration, affecting the planet’s and its inhabitants’ future. How did it all go? #Cometlanding and exploring origins of life Ten years on Earth might be a speck of sand in the hour glass of the galaxy, but not for the European Space... 

A cell undergoing division. About two-thirds of all cancer cases were not caused by environmental factors or bad genes, but rather resulted from random bad luck during stem cell division, a new statistical study says. This means more effort is needed for early detection. There are many types of cancer, but they are all basically cells running amok and multiplying without check, which leads to tumors... 

Not quite the Biblical Noah’s Ark, but possibly the next best thing. Moscow State University has secured Russia’s largest-ever scientific grant to collect the DNA of every living and extinct creature for the world’s first database of its kind. “I call the project ‘Noah’s Ark.’ It will involve the creation of a depository, a databank for the storing of every living thing on Earth, including... 

A fragile snailfish found at a depth of 8,145 meters in the Mariana Trench, western Pacific Ocean. Researchers have discovered many new species at the greatest depths ever recorded in the Mariana Trench located in western Pacific Ocean. The species were explored during the researchers’ expedition to the deepest trench on Earth, at 8,143 meters below the surface which is 500 meters deeper than the... 

Scientists identify infrared vision in human eye. A new study has identified a super power of human eye to see invisible infrared light. Scientists found that under certain conditions the eye’s retina would be able to react differently and consequently sense infra-red light which is beyond what traditionally considered as visible spectrum. The super power of the eye appears when pairs of photons... 

The news that South Korean scientists are planning to clone a mammoth, using the DNA of a particularly well-preserved specimen in the Siberian permafrost, has reignited the debate over the ethics of cloning. But whether or not it’s right, could it happen? And what other animals could, or couldn’t, we clone? Mammoth It may be possible to clone a mammoth. It would be an enormous technical challenge,... 

Health inspection and quarantine researchers work in their laboratory at an airport in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. China has recently approved home-grown Ebola tests that comply with international norms to fight the spread of the deadly disease. In a brief statement on Friday, the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) said top health authorities approved three home-grown Ebola test reagents... 

The iconic image of Watson and Crick giving a presentation on DNA in 1953 at Cambridge University. The geneticist James Watson, who has been ostracized since public comments about black African IQ in 2007, is to auction off his 1962 prize for discovering the structure of DNA. It is expected to fetch in excess of $3 million. “Because I was an ‘unperson’ I was fired from the boards of companies,...