Prehistoric art and ornaments from Indonesian ‘Ice Age’
Credit: Griffith University
The Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE) team, based in Griffith's Environmental Futures Research Institute, together with Indonesian colleagues, have shed new...
Is it a boy or is it a girl? New method to ID baby...
Credit:Florida Atlantic University
Is it a boy or is it a girl? For baby sea turtles it's not that cut and dry. Because they don't...
Mutant lifestyles: Researchers uncover a potent genetic element in Earth’s smallest life forms
Credit:Birgit Luef, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
It's the stuff of science fiction, though there's nothing fiction about it: Researchers have discovered a multitude...
Graphene sieve turns seawater into drinking water
Credit:Image courtesy of University of Manchester
Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention as promising candidates for new filtration technologies. Now the much sought-after development of...
Monkey business produces rare preserved blood in amber fossils
Credit: Fischer Laboratory/Caltech
Two monkeys grooming each other about 20-30 million years ago may have helped produce a remarkable new find -- the first fossilized...
How do plants make oxygen? Ask cyanobacteria
Credit: Fischer Laboratory/Caltech
The ability to generate oxygen through photosynthesis -- that helpful service performed by plants and algae, making life possible for humans and...
Tyrannosaurs show their sensitive side
Credit: Thomas Carr
A team of researchers, including UNM Honors College Professor Jason R. Moore, has found a new species of tyrannosaur dinosaur -- the...
Search for stellar survivor of a supernova explosion
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to observe the remnant of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Beyond just...
‘Whale breath’ reveals bacteria threatening endangered killer whales
Credit:Jeff Foster
Droplets and exhaled breath caught from the blowholes of killer whales along the Pacific coast are providing scientists with insights into whale health...
Blood test unlocks new frontier in treating depression
Credit: Image courtesy of UT Southwestern Medical Center
Doctors for the first time can determine which medication is more likely to help a patient overcome...
A badger can bury a cow by itself
Credit:Photo by George Poinar, Jr., courtesy of Oregon State University
While studying scavenger behavior in Utah's Great Basin Desert, University of Utah biologists observed an...
