Many large charismatic mammals went extinct at the end of the Ice Age (approx 11,000 years ago), including the Steppe bison, Bison priscus. A recent f...
An international team of more than 100 researchers--including Dr. Michelle Trautwein of the California Academy of Sciences--has published the first mo...
Sweating, panting, moving to the shade, or taking a dip are all time-honored methods used by animals to cool down. The implicit goal of these adaptati...
The microbes living in people's guts are much less diverse than those in humans' closest relatives, the African apes, an apparently long evolu...
Consumers often complain that alcohol-free beer is tasteless, but some of the aromas it is lacking can be carried across from regular beer. Researcher...
Among patients with metastatic melanoma, treatment with a combination of the drugs sargramostim plus ipilimumab, compared with ipilimumab alone, resul...
In an era of reduced funding, it's not enough for a young researcher to be a good scientist. He or she also needs "street smarts" to, fo...
A University of Tennessee, Knoxville, study finds that nonprofit organizations aiming to protect biodiversity show little evidence of responding to ec...
The puzzle pieces of tectonic plates that make up the outer layer of earth are not rigid and don't fit together as nicely as we were taught in hig...
Testing of study participants who wore head-mounted display systems (Google glasses) found that the glasses created a partial peripheral vision obstru...