A new study published in the JNeurosci shows that through selective breeding, humans have significantly altered the brains of different lineages of domestic...
Astronomers using the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility have caught an active asteroid called (6478) Gault in the act of changing color — in the near-infrared...
An international team of scientists from the United Kingdom and the United States has discovered a previously unknown type of electromagnetic wave: a Dyakonov-Voigt...
Venus’ surface has never been seen by the human eye because of opaque, highly reflective clouds which permanently cover the planet. What is curious about...
Sleep is crucial for our survival, and many conditions, including cancer, autoimmune disorders, cardiovascular disease, and Alzheimer’s, are linked to...
University of Copenhagen researcher Isabelle Augenstein and colleagues trawled through 3.5 million fiction and non-fiction books, all published in English...
Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer...
A team of scientists at the University of Georgia has used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to engineer brown anoles (Anolis sagrei) with transmissible mutations...
Astronomers from the Red Dots Collaboration have detected three rocky exoplanets orbiting Gliese 1061, which is the 20th nearest star to the Sun. The outermost...
An international consortium of researchers has sequenced the genome of the common pea (Pisum sativum), the second most important grain legume in the world...
An international team of marine geologists has found evidence for meteoric water flow at 2,625 feet (800 m) below sea level near the Lofoten archipelago...
Astronomers using data from ESA’s Gaia spacecraft have identified a number of clusters, associations and co-moving groups of stars within about 3,300...
A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a thread-like ferromagnetic robot that can glide through complex...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of a dwarf irregular galaxy named UGC 685.
This Hubble image shows the dwarf galaxy...
A team of researchers at the University of Iowa has found that a single bout of aerobic exercise improves cognitive functions and working memory in older...
