Using gene therapy, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School have restored hearing in mice with a genetic form of deaf...
It is well known that large volcanic eruptions contribute to climate variability. However, quantifying these contributions has proven challenging due ...
While the geographic ranges of many animals are expanding northward in response to climate change, those of North American and European bumblebee spec...
In Borneo, some insectivorous bats have developed a rather intriguing relationship with carnivorous pitcher plants. The plants offer the bats a relati...
A new study led by a Kansas State University geneticist has shown that genomic signatures of adaptation in crop plants can help predict how crop varie...
An international team led by researchers from the Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, has obtai...
Groundbreaking work at two Department of Energy national laboratories has confirmed plutonium's magnetism, which scientists have long theorized bu...
Traditional robots are made of components and rigid materials like you might see on an automotive assembly line - metal and hydraulic parts, harshly r...
Male black widow spiders destroy large sections of the female's web during courtship and wrap it up in their own silk. New research published in A...
The amount of heat flowing toward the base of the West Antarctic ice sheet from geothermal sources deep within the Earth is surprisingly high, accordi...