Nanites and nano-scale robots have been found mostly in the realm of science fiction, but…
Hunter-gatherer and pastoralist tribes in sub-Saharan Africa, where humans are thought to have originated, even…
Vesta, the second most massive asteroid in the Solar System, after the dwarf planet Ceres,…
The bacterium Escherichia coli takes about 20 minutes to duplicate in optimal conditions. Biological physicists…
Scientists have been trying to figure out exactly what the future entails for the Yellowstone…
Fear memories are formed when humans associate things with strong, negative emotional responses. A team…
Early Saturday morning, an unmanned Air Force space plane landed by itself at a California…
Two new papers based on observations from the low-altitude mapping orbit of the Dawn mission…
Some complex protein drugs need to be made by culturing mammalian cells. Plant biologists have…
Researchers are trying to make detailed predictions about how urban areas are likely to grow…
A new three-dimensional imaging technique has shown the spiraling movements that human sperm accomplishes while…
If scientists are able to figure out the precise weight of the world’s oceans it…
Using NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes and gravitational lensing, astronomers have spotted what could…
On Monday, Novosibirsk scientists of the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy at the Siberian Branch…
As of September of this year, there have been more than 2,600 new cases of…
Launched in 2008 to improve the ability to detect threats from standoff distances, DARPA’s CT2WS…
Since the 1960s, DNA has changed the story of human ancestry. Some studies have shown…
In a newly published paper, a team of researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological…