Breast microbiome/bacterial differences identified between healthy, cancerous tissue
A team of Mayo Clinic researchers has identified evidence of bacteria in sterilely-obtained breast tissue and found differences between women with and without breast...
New method to measure the energy of a lightning strike
When lightning strikes the sand, it may generate a cylindrical tube of glass, called a fulgurite. This fulgurite has a diameter of approximately 1.2...
New light shed on how vertebrates see: Details in eyes of 300-million-year-old lamprey and...
The fossil of a 300 million year old primitive jawless fish - a lamprey - about 6 cm in length. The eyes are the...
‘Red gene’ in birds, turtles suggests dinosaurs had bird-like color vision
Painted turtle.Credit: Nicole Valenzuela
A gene for red color vision that originated in the reptile lineage around 250m years ago has resulted in the bright...
Elders use brain networks differently for short-term recall
While performing tasks of any difficulty older adults recruited additional between-module connections (gray). In contrast, younger adults only recruited additional between-module connections for the...
Researchers identify how queen bees repress workers’ fertility
Researchers from New Zealand's University of Otago have discovered the molecular mechanism by which queen honeybees carefully control worker bees' fertility.
It has long been...
Researchers image brain cells’ reactions to concussive trauma
Using a technique that can image neurons in real time following the application of compressive strain, researchers from Brown University have shown that irreversible...
Discovery of male-harming DNA mutation reinforces ‘mother’s curse’ hypothesis
Mitochondria.Credit: National Institutes of Health
There is new evidence that the "mother's curse" -- the possibility that moms may transmit genes to their children that...
Population boom preceded early farming
This map shows the area covered by a new University of Utah study that concludes a population boom and resulting scarcity of wild foods...
Severe 2015 Indonesian Fire Season Linked to El Niño Drought
In this photo, fires rage in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.Credits: Rini Sulaiman/CIFOR
An especially dry period from July to October in Indonesia, a result of...
Tropical Storm Earl forms in Caribbean Sea
NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured a visible image of Earl at 1:30 p.m. EDT on Aug. 2, 2016. Earl is a small storm. An area...
