Why Cats’ Eyes Glow in the Dark
Cats and many other animals, including most dogs, can reflect light from their eyes. As a result, cats’ eyes usually shine brilliantly in photos taken…
Cats and many other animals, including most dogs, can reflect light from their eyes. As a result, cats’ eyes usually shine brilliantly in photos taken…
Glowing spider fossils prompt breakthrough study of how they were preserved at Aix-en-Provence. A geologic formation near Aix-en-Provence, France, is renowned as one of the…
Mechanical engineers put an Oreo’s cream filling through a battery of tests to understand what happens when two wafers are twisted apart. When you twist…
In a new book, an MIT scholar examines how game-theory logic underpins many of our decisions that seem odd and irrational. Why do people wear…
Remarkable new evidence that pterosaurs, the flying relatives of dinosaurs, were able to control the color of their feathers using melanin pigments has been discovered…
Research findings offer new insights into how our movements are coordinated. Keeping our eyes focused on what we reach for, whether it’s a supermarket item…
Survey findings may support nutritionally complete vegan dog diets over raw or conventional meat diets. A survey study of the guardians of more than 2,500…
Xinjiang, in northwest China, lays at an important junction between east and west Eurasia and has played a historically important role in the exchange of…
On the micrometer scale deformation properties of metals change profoundly: the smooth and continuous behavior of bulk materials often becomes jerky due to random strain…
Scientific names get chosen for lots of reasons — they can honor an important person, or hint at what an organism looks like or where…
Lies That ‘Might’ Eventually Come True Seem Less Unethical People could be willing to forgive, spread misinformation they think might become true in the future,…
Photocatalyst made using a combination of titanium dioxide (TiO2) and copper oxide (CuxO) nanoclusters inactivates various variant types of novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Scientists in Nara…
Researchers from Penn, Inserm, and elsewhere observed that the number of grooming partners an individual animal had predicted the size of brain areas associated with…
The new method of synthesizing crystals leads researchers to a brand new phase of metal, which may be useful for new technologies. Results were confirmed…
Potential Model for New Studies of Depression, Anxiety, Alzheimer’s Disease Rhesus macaques showed ability to perceive their own heartbeat Interoception an important marker in neuropsychiatric…
An USDA Agricultural Research Service-developed line of bees that naturally has low levels of Varroa mites is more than twice as likely to survive the…
Children differ dramatically from adults in their moral views on animals, new research shows. University of Exeter researchers asked children aged 9-11 about the moral…
An outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in chicken and turkey flocks has spread across 24 U.S. states since it was first detected in Indiana…