A team of highly determined high school students discovered a never-before-seen pulsar by painstakingly analyzing data from the National Science Found...
What happens to an astronaut's brain during a mission to Mars? Nothing good. It's besieged by destructive particles that can forever impair co...
Spanish and Portuguese researchers have analysed the composition and radiative effect of desert aerosols during two episodes which simultaneously affe...
When consumers taste cheap wine and rate it highly because they believe it is expensive, is it because prejudice has blinded them to the actual taste,...
Recombination, or crossing-over, occurs when sperm and egg cells are formed and segments of each chromosome pair are interchanged. This process plays ...
Marine ecosystems can be changed by night-time artificial lighting according to new research published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. T...
Genetic testing of Iñupiat people currently living in Alaska's North Slope is helping Northwestern University scientists fill in the blanks...
Lucy and other members of the early hominid species Australopithecus afarensis probably were similar to humans in the size difference between males an...
The demise of Neanderthals may have nothing to do with innovative hunting weapons carried by humans from west Asia, according to a new study published...
A new technique for visualizing the rapidly changing electronic structures of atomic-scale materials as they twist, tumble and traipse across the nano...