Paleontologist aids in new discovery 33 years after finding fossil
Reconstruction of Morturneria.
Credit: S. J. Godfrey
In 1984, Sankar Chatterjee - curator of paleontology for the Museum of Texas Tech University - and his student,...
Metallurgy likely has more than one birthplace
Copper bead from Çatalhöyük. It consists of very pure copper in metal form, as found in nature.
Credit: M. Radivojevi?, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
When and where...
Was the primordial soup a hearty pre-protein stew?
Discovering paths the chemicals of life likely took on Earth could make it possible to calculate probabilities of life on other planets.
Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
The primordial...
Zika virus kills brain cancer stem cells
Brain cancer stem cells (left) are killed by Zika virus infection (image at right shows cells after Zika treatment). A new study shows that...
The sniff test of self-recognition confirmed: Dogs have self-awareness
Dogs have the ability to recognize themselves, research shows. (Stock image)
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A new research carried out by the Department of...
‘Extreme’ telescopes find the second-fastest-spinning pulsar
The Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), a network of thousands of linked radio antennas, primarily located in the Netherlands, has discovered two new millisecond pulsars by...
Discovery of boron on Mars adds to evidence for habitability
A selfie of the NASA Curiosity rover at the Murray Buttes in Gale Crater, Mars, a location where boron was found in light-toned calcium...
Contagious yawning more closely associated with perceptual sensitivity than empathy
Participants of the study were asked to judge whether the people in the photos were yawning or not.
Credit: Chia-huei Tseng
Contagious yawning is a universal...
Swings in dad’s testosterone affects the family — for better or worse — after...
Hormones levels in new dads affect mood and relationships, researchers say. (Stock image)
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Postpartum depression is often associated with mothers,...
Tiny nanopackages built out of DNA help scientists peek at how neurons work
Using a unique method involving nanocapsules made out of DNA, researchers studied a little-understood signaling process (lit up in color in the...
Why does rubbing a balloon on your hair make it stick?
Changes in microstructure, such as this void and fibrils created by straining a polymer sheet, appear to control how the material charges...