The Preservation of Colors in Fossil Insects
By using elevated pressures and temperatures to simulate the effects of burial on structurally colored cuticles of modern beetles, researchers at Yale University show how…
By using elevated pressures and temperatures to simulate the effects of burial on structurally colored cuticles of modern beetles, researchers at Yale University show how…
A report presented at the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections describes how an HIV-infected infant underwent remission after receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) within…
In a newly published study, Duke University researchers detail how they electronically linked the brains of rats for the first time, allowing them to communicate…
In a soon-to-be-published study, researchers from the Max Planck Institute show in mice that social stress reduces the volume of Homer-1 in the hippocampus, which…
A team of researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is combining computer-generated holography and optogenetics in an effort to develop a new strategy for…
Stanford scientists have developed a technique for observing real-time brain activity in live mice. The new tool may be useful in the fight against neurodegenerative…
UCLA-led researchers have developed a “pill” that uses two enzymes to mimic the action of the human liver in fighting alcohol intoxication. In a discovery…
Researchers from Ohio State University have discovered the oldest example of biomarkers found inside a particular complete fossil. Columbus, Ohio—Though scientists have long believed that…
Researchers have taken a step forward towards producing artificial photosynthesis systems that would provide clean, green and renewable energy. Using pulses of X-rays from SLAC’s…
While studying magnetite nanoparticles, researchers from the Max Planck Institute developed a new model for predicting how nanoparticles form. Nanoparticles are versatile harbingers of hope:…
Researchers at Caltech have developed techniques for visualizing the behavior of biological nanostructures in both space and time, providing the methodology to find out the…
More than twenty scientists collaborated on a recently published study that reconstructed the ancestor of placental mammals. The common ancestor of more than 5,000…
A nearly 400,000 year old human fossil discovered in a Serbian cave is helping scientists shed new light on human evolution. A fossil fragment of…
Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized bones of a 68 million year old flying reptile, Eurazhdarcho langendorfensis, in the Transylvanian Basin of Romania. A new kind…
Scientists at Berkeley Lab have developed an algorithm and a computational pipeline that combs through large sets of images and identifies tumor subtypes, helping shed…
New research from the University of Oxford suggests that a vegetarian diet could significantly reduce people’s risk of heart disease, finding that vegetarians have…
New research provides evidence against the hypothesis that a large comet impact or airburst caused the termination of the Clovis culture. Comet explosions did not…
A new study from the University of Washington shows that sex between married couples is linked to what types of chores each spouse completes. Married…