Prof Trevor Lamb of the Australian National University has published a major scientific review of the origin of the vertebrate eye and vision, summarizing...
According to a new study reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the threat of infants being killed by rival males is the key...
Arachnoscelis arachnoids, a rare species of katydid from Central Northeast of Colombia, uses elastic energy and wing movement to reach volumes greater...
A new study published in the journal Current Biology provides the first scientific evidence that the lunar cycle can influence human sleep.
New study shows...
Scientists from Japan and the United States have shown that they can plant false memories in the brains of genetically modified mice.
The team identified...
Herpes simplex virus 1 has an internal pressure eight times higher than a car tire, and uses it to literally blast its DNA into human cells, according...
New research reported in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society shows that the previously known but misclassified small predatory fish Fouldenia...
Very detailed new observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) of nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 may help explain the strange...
Superresolution single-molecule fluorescence microscopy has given researchers their clearest pictures yet of how white blood immune cells, known as natural...
Two tiny marsupial fossils from Australia are prompting an overhaul of theory about marsupial evolution after they revealed unexpected links to South America...
According to a new study published online in the Geophysical Research Letters, some water-carved Martian valleys appear to have been caused by runoff from...
European scientists reporting in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have identified how unique neural pathways in the brain allows...
Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) can use copying of signature whistles as a way of addressing or labeling animals on an individual basis, according...
A new study, published in the journal Precambrian Research, describes evidence that primitive forms of life existed on land 2.2 billion years ago.
Bright,...
A large international team of researchers used Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite of instruments to measure the abundances of different...
Researchers from Canada, France, Germany and the United States reporting in the journal Cell have found a new ground-breaking way of killing cancer cells.
Scientists...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have for the first time directly imaged a snow line at another star.
This is...
Scientists have discovered a marine microbe-derived antibiotic that has the ability to kill the deadly Anthrax bacterium Bacillus anthracis and other pathogens...
