Analyzing a Mouse Brain With “Block-Face” Electron Microscopy
A team of Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research has developed a method for preparing the whole mouse brain for “block-face” electron…
A team of Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research has developed a method for preparing the whole mouse brain for “block-face” electron…
Bees are the world’s most important pollinators, and without them, the planet would quickly go hungry. All over the world, their populations are quickly decreasing,…
Currently, there is a scientific consensus that females are hitting puberty earlier than before, developing breasts as young as 7 or 8. Scientists believe childhood…
20 years ago, Mary Schweitzer discovered that she spotted the effects of what could only be described as a red blood cell in a slice…
It seems that the blood of the young can help the old. A new study shows that when the blood of young mice is injected…
New research from scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center provides key insights into the basic biology of tumor formation and offers a potential new…
A daddy longlegs with a leg span of over 12 inches was discovered in the caves of Laos. Opiliones are an order of arachnids, and…
Researchers at Stanford University have been able to provide sleep-based therapies to deal with traumatic memories, which could reduce fearful responses during waking hours. The…
In a new study, MIT neuroscientists found that Broca’s area actually consists of two distinct subunits, one focuses selectively on language processing, while the other…
The issue at hand is that the common badger, Meles meles, one of the largest predators left in the British Isles, while loved by the…
Biologists have uncovered a spotted New Zealand bellbird (Anthornis melanura) in Karori’s Zealandia eco-sanctuary that exhibits features and behavior of both male and female members…
Just days after Kyoto University biologist Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), Hisashi Moriguchi, a visiting…
Using polymers, scientists at Penn State created primitive cell-like structures that they infused with RNA, demonstrating how the molecules would react chemically under conditions that…
Computer simulations have been used to examine the sex lives of ancient hominids for many years, by measuring the circumferences of ancient bones, and by…
When Chinese soft-shelled turtles (Pelodiscus sinensis) need to urinate, they open their mouths, according to a new study. As odd as it might seem, this…
Most of the actions that people take for granted are the result of a set of complex decisions that the brain deals with. The decisions…
A new study of fossils in New Zealand has discovered that cloning dinosaurs or organisms that have been extinct for millions of years is highly…
A newly published study describes the making and testing of collagen-based on a new computer program that predicts the most stable structures of nanometer-sized collagen….