Life is pretty easy to recognize. It moves, it grows, it eats, it excretes, it reproduces. Simple. In biology, researchers often use the acronym ‘MRS-GREN’...
A team of scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WSC), the CADIC-CONICET and Argentina’s National Parks Administration has discovered a new...
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning image snapped by the FOcal Reducer and low dispersion Spectrograph (FORS) instrument on...
In a series of experiments, a duo of researchers from the Department of Zoology at Stockholm University has observed eight-week-old wolf puppies spontaneously...
The exceptionally preserved fossils of the oldest species of scorpion ever found have been unearthed in Wisconsin, the United States.
Reconstruction of...
An international team of researchers has discovered a new species of titi monkey living in the forests of Brazil.
Parecis titis (Plecturocebus parecis)...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a beautiful spiral galaxy called NGC 1022.
This Hubble image shows NGC 1022, a face-on barred spiral galaxy...
The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft has captured a new image of the icy cap at the Martian north pole, complete...
Paleontologists in China have identified a new species of microraptorine dromaeosaur closely related to the famous dinosaur Velociraptor.
An artist’s...
At the center of our Milky Way Galaxy lurks Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole that is four million times the mass of the Sun. Recently, two unusual...
Astrophysicists have very little idea of what dark matter is and they have yet to detect a dark matter particle. But they do know that the gravity of clumps...
Shell fishing was a common activity of Neanderthals, according to new research led by University of Colorado, Boulder archaeologists.
Homo neanderthalensis...
An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of the giant squid (Architeuthis dux), the species which has inspired generations to tell...
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that men born in the United States in the early 19th century had temperatures 0.59...
An international team of astronomers has detected a candidate super-Earth planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun.
An artist’s...
Foods high in sucrose, or table sugar, influence brain reward circuitry in ways similar to those observed when addictive drugs are consumed, according...
Astronomers have detected five new planets, eight planet candidates, and confirmed three previously reported planets, around nine nearby M-dwarf (red dwarf)...
At the end of its mission in 2017, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft performed a set of ‘Grand Finale’ orbits bringing it closer to Saturn than ever before....
![Winterdahl et al investigated the effects of sucrose using positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging with [11C]carfentanil (μ-opioid receptor agonist) and [11C]raclopride (dopamine D2/3 receptor antagonist) in seven female anesthetized Göttingen minipigs. Image credit: Winterdahl et al, doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-53430-9.](https://cdn.sci.news/images/2020/01/image_8019-Sugar-Brain-195x110.jpg)
