Marmoset monkeys learn to call the same way human infants learn to babble
Marmoset monkeys.
Credit: © ryanladbrook / Fotolia
A baby's babbles start to sound like speech more quickly if they get frequent vocal feedback from adults. Princeton...
Two-headed worms ‘coded’: Bioelectric code behind worm self-healing manipulated
After being treated with an inhibitor of electrical synapses, about 25 percent of wild-type (WT) flatworms regenerated into double-headed forms (DH), while 72 percent...
New species of bus-sized fossil marine reptile unearthed in Russia
This is an artistic reconstruction of Luskhan itilensis.
Credit: Copyright Andrey Atuchin, 2017
A new species of a fossil pliosaur (large predatory marine reptile from the...
Why the Sumatra earthquake was so severe
A 'free-fall funnel', part of the drilling process.
Credit: Tim Fulton, IODP / JRSO
An international team of scientists has found evidence suggesting the dehydration of...
Extreme Jupiter weather and magnetic fields
This image combines an image taken with Hubble Space Telescope in the optical (taken in spring 2014) and observations of its auroras in the...
US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear disaster
This image captures the spread of radioactivity from a hypothetical fire in a high-density spent-fuel pool at the Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant in...
The big star that couldn’t become a supernova
In the failed supernova of a red supergiant, the envelope of the star is ejected and expands, producing a cold, red transient source surrounding...
Water is surprisingly ordered on the nanoscale
The method involves overlapping ultrashort laser pulses in a mixture of water droplets in liquid oil and detecting photons that are scattered only from...
Lizards may be overwhelmed by fire ants and social stress combined
The researchers conducted two experiments to test fence lizards' stress response to non-lethal exposure to fire ants.
Credit: Tracy Langkilde and Travis Robbins
Lizards living in...
Just after the Big Bang: Galaxies created stars a hundred times faster now
This is an artist's impression of a quasar and neighboring merging galaxy. The galaxies observed by the team are so distant that no detailed...
Whales only recently evolved into giants when changing ice, oceans concentrated prey
Blue whale surface feeding.
Credit: © michaelpeak / Fotolia
The blue whale, which uses baleen to filter its prey from ocean water and can reach lengths...
