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Psychological Science Explores the Minds of Dogs
It's curious that we know relatively little about dogs' cognitive abilities when we know so much about the abilities of other animals, from primates...
Headless Dinosaur Reunited With Its Skull, One Century Later
The Corythosaurus skull, collected in 1920 by George Sternberg, is in the University of Alberta's Paleontology Museum.
Credit: Katherine Bramble
After being headless for almost a...
Three-dimensional direction-dependent force measurement at the subatomic scale
Bimodal atomic force microscopy provides three-dimensional force vector maps with subatomic resolution. The cantilever is simultaneously oscillated laterally and vertically to determine the vector...
Why do shorter men go bald more often?
Dr. Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach and Prof. Markus Nöthen from the Institute of Human Genetics at the University of Bonn, in collaboration with colleagues, identified over...
Waves of lava seen in Jupiter’s moon Io’s largest volcanic crater
Maps of the temperature and lava crust age within Loki Patera, derived from the LBTO observations. The higher temperatures in the southeast (location 3)...
Primitive atmosphere discovered around ‘Warm Neptune’
The atmosphere of the distant “warm Neptune” HAT-P-26b, illustrated here, is unexpectedly primitive, composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. By combining observations from NASA’s...
Zinc acetate lozenges may increase the recovery rate from the common cold by three-fold
Common cold.
Credit: © kmiragaya / Fotolia
According to a meta-analysis of three randomized controlled trials zinc acetate lozenges may increase the rate of recovery from...
Antibiotic-resistant microbes date back to 450 million years ago, well before the age of...
Bacterial cells (stock illustration).
Credit: © phonlamaiphoto / Fotolia
Leading hospital "superbugs," known as the enterococci, arose from an ancestor that dates back 450 million years...
Baleen whales’ ancestors were toothy suction feeders
This photo shows members of the excavation team digging around the skeleton of Mystacodon selenensis at the Media Luna locality in the Pisco Basin,...
Hubble catches a spiral in the air pump
Spiral galaxy IC 2560.
Credit: Hubble/European Space Agency and NASA
Lying more than 110 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Antlia (The Air...
Drinking more water associated with numerous dietary benefits, study finds
Drinking water (stock image).
Credit: © ampyang / Fotolia.
For people who want to control their weight or reduce their intakes of sugar, sodium and saturated...
