Satellites help link Texas earthquakes to wastewater injection, Stanford scientist says
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake that rattled residents and damaged buildings in East Texas in 2012 was triggered by the injection of large volumes of...
Pluto’s ‘heart’ sheds light on a possible buried ocean
Pluto's famous "heart," half of which was created by an ancient impact, offers clues about a possible subsurface ocean. Credit: NASA/APL/SwRI
A giant asteroid impact...
Vitamin B levels during pregnancy linked to eczema risk in child
Infants whose mothers had a higher level of a particular type of vitamin B during pregnancy have a lower risk of eczema at age...
Melatonin, biological clock keep singing fish on time
A nest with male and female midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus) and developing embryos attached to the rock.Credit: Margaret A. Marchaterre; Image courtesy of Cornell...
Study provides strongest evidence oxygen levels were key to early animal evolution
Cloudina fossils (Credit: Rachel Wood)
It has long puzzled scientists why, after 3 billion years of nothing more complex than algae, complex animals suddenly started...
What’s happening beneath Greenland?
Sarqardliup glacier, west Greenland. Photo: Shfaqat Abbas Khan
A new study on the Greenland Ice Sheet provides valuable insight on climate change, using unique research...
Tattoo therapy could ease chronic disease
Polyethylene glycol-hydrophilic carbon clusters developed at Rice University were shown to be selectively taken up by T cells, which inhibits their function, in tests...
Caspian terns discovered nesting 1,000 miles farther to the north than ever recorded in...
Caspian tern chick.Credit: Kevin Rodriguez-WCS
WCS reported today that in the late summer of 2016, a WCS field team led by Dr. Trevor Haynes monitored...
Clichés about nations govern our actions
How people of different nationalities work together depends on their preconceptions.Image credit: ©stemonx/Flickr
Germans arrive at every appointment 5 hours before the scheduled time, all...
Landmark Map Reveals the Genetic Wiring of Cellular Life
Credit: University of Toronto
The new map breaks away from the old way of studying genes one at a time, showing how genes interact in...
Sharpshooting nanoparticles hit the target
A nanoparticle-based drug delivery system that can sense and respond to different conditions in the body, as well as to an externally applied magnetic...
