How Arctic spring kills birds in Africa
Foraging red knots in Mauritania are shown. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 13, 2016, issue of Science, published...
Found: Surviving evidence of Earth’s formative years
This is a photograph of Baffin Island, where a research team was able find a geochemical signature of material left over from the early...
How urban living affects children’s mental health
Lower social cohesion among neighbors and higher crime rates contribute to higher rates of psychotic symptoms among urban children, a new study from researchers...
High fruit intake during adolescence linked with lower breast cancer risk
Two linked papers in The BMJ this week shed new light on the relation of alcohol and diet with breast cancer and heart disease.
The...
Mysterious mounds created by earthworms
This is a sural in the process of formation with earthworm aggregates on top.Credit: Professor José Iriarte
Mysterious spectacular mounds found in Earth in tropical...
Youngest Ancient Egyptian human foetus discovered in miniature coffin at the Fitzwilliam Museum
Tiny coffin excavated at Giza in 1907 is remarkable evidence of importance placed on official burial rituals in ancient Egypt.
A miniature ancient Egyptian coffin measuring...
Fighting hospital germs with sugar
Sweet spot for therapeutic antibodies: the illustration above shows the three-dimensional structure of the sugar molecule PS-I of C. difficile (orange: carbon; red: oxygen;...
‘Sixth sense’ protects drivers except when texting
One of the 59 volunteers in a distracted driving study by the University of Houston and Texas A&M Transportation Institute sits in a high-fidelity...
Fast casual restaurant entrées higher in calories than fast food
Dieters looking to cut calories may believe it's best to pick a fast casual restaurant over a fast food chain, but new research from...
Cosmic dust reveals Earth’s ancient atmosphere
This is one of 60 micrometeorites extracted from 2.7 billion year old limestone, from the Pilbara region in Western Australia. These micrometeorites consist of...
Researchers prove humans in Southern Arabia 10,000 years earlier than first thought
Credit: University of Huddersfield
THE last Ice Age made much of the globe uninhabitable, but there were oases - or refugia - where people 20,000...
