3-D-modeling of food residues in 230 million years old fossil feces
This is a detailed image of a cover wing from one of the beetles.
Credit: Martin Qvarnstrom
Synchrotron scanning can produce high-quality 3D models of...
Sensitivity to inequity is in wolves’ and dogs’ blood
Wolves and dogs are sensitive to inequity.
Credit: Robert Bayer
Not only dogs but also wolves react to inequity -- similar to humans or primates. This...
Monkey see, monkey do, depending on age, experience and efficiency
Younger capuchin monkeys turn to older animals to learn how to open Panama fruit. But even experienced monkeys will pick up a new technique...
Does consuming low-fat dairy increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease?
Those who consumed at least three servings of low-fat dairy a day had a 34 percent greater chance of developing Parkinson's than people who...
Ingredient of life found around infant Sun-like stars
ALMA has observed stars like the Sun at a very early stage in their formation and found traces of methyl isocyanate -- a chemical...
Extinct early whales listened like their relatives on land, fossil evidence shows
This is a 3-D model of the virtual reconstruction of the bony labyrinth, which will be available for online visualization.
Credit: Mourlam and Orliac
Whales rely...
Scientists improve people’s creativity through electrical brain stimulation
Researchers passed a weak constant electrical current through saline-soaked electrodes positioned over target regions in the scalp.
Credit: Image courtesy of Queen Mary University of...
Oyster shells inspire new method to make superstrong, flexible polymers
This is a figure illustrating that polymer crystallization speed can be used to control the spatial distribution of nanoparticles. Impurities (here, the nanoparticles) will...
Century-old relativity experiment used to measure a white dwarf’s mass
This illustration reveals how the gravity of a white dwarf star warps space and bends the light of a distant star behind it. White...
Celestial Boondocks: Study Supports the Idea We Live in a Void
The universe as simulated by the Millennium Simulation is structured like Swiss cheese in filaments and voids. The Milky Way, according to UW-Madison astronomers,...
World’s oldest fossil mushroom found
The mushroom was uncovered in the Araripe Basin, in northeast Brazil, in a limestone layer called the Crato Formation.
Credit: Graphic by Danielle Ruffatto
Roughly 115...
