Fast Evolution Can Lead to Nowhere: Rapidly Evolving Species More Likely To Go Extinct
Researchers at the University of Bristol have found that fast evolution can lead to nowhere. In a new study of lizards and their relatives, Dr. Jorge…
Researchers at the University of Bristol have found that fast evolution can lead to nowhere. In a new study of lizards and their relatives, Dr. Jorge…
New research from Wellesley College finds for the first time that bees use a specific sound to communicate the threat of giant hornets as they…
The two-legged dinosaur Issi saaneq lived about 214 million years ago in what is now Greenland. It was a medium-sized, long-necked herbivore and a predecessor…
Honey bee colonies worldwide have suffered from a range of damaging diseases. A new study has provided clues on how changing weather patterns might be…
In a new paper, scientists suggest that efforts to understand human cognition should expand beyond the study of individual brains. They call on neuroscientists to…
Daylight saving time ends in the U.S. and Canada on November 7, 2021, and most of us will be setting our clocks back an hour….
Since its first recorded sighting by European explorers in the 1600s, scientists and historians have believed that Europeans were the first people to ever set…
Despite their name, rare earth elements are not actually that rare. The 17 metallic elements are ubiquitous in nature and are becoming even more common…
Conspiracists have used the provisional nature of science to paint scientists as malign actors. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, conspiracy theorists have exploited the conditional nature…
As the latest ‘Call of Duty’ video game is released today, research shows that violent video games do not lead to increased violence. Mass media…
Princeton researchers have solved a 54-year-old puzzle about why certain fluids strangely slow down under pressure when flowing through porous materials, such as soils and…
The first partial skull of a child of Homo naledi begins to give us insight into all stages of life of this remarkable species. An…
Neuroscientists find the internal workings of next-word prediction models resemble those of language-processing centers in the brain. In the past few years, artificial intelligence models…
A computer network closely modeled on part of the human brain is enabling new insights into the way our brains process moving images — and…
Rare boomerang collection from Cooper Creek (Kinipapa) analyzed. New research has analyzed a rare collection of non-returning boomerangs from Kinipapa (Cooper Creek), near Innamincka in…
Hoover the seal was initially kept in a family home and could imitate human speech, barking catch phrases in a gruff accent (“Come over here”)….
Scientists in South African and the UK have found the smoking gun in forensic lightning pathology that could help save lives threatened by the increase…
What are the Trojan asteroids? These mysterious space rocks have been gravitationally trapped in Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun for billions of years and hold…