Beluga whales have sensitive hearing, little age-related loss
Scientists published the first hearing tests on a wild population of healthy marine mammals. The tests on beluga whales in Bristol Bay, Alaska, revealed...
Researchers say short-term management responses to climate change-mediated disasters can be maladaptive in the...
As hurricane season commences on the East Coast and the West Coast heads into fire season, there's no time like the present to consider...
Atomic-scale ping-pong
New experiments by researchers at the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester have shed more light on the gas flow through tiny,...
Increased risk of birth defects in babies after first-trimester exposure to lithium
Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found an elevated risk of major congenital malformations in fetuses after first-trimester exposure to...
Constructing new tissue shapes with light
Constructing biological tissues, such as skin, muscle, or bone, in customized shapes is now one step closer. Researchers at EMBL have succeeded in guiding...
Electron sandwich doubles thermoelectric performance
Researchers more than doubled the ability of a material to convert heat into electricity, which could help reduce the amount of wasted heat, and...
Local interventions boost coral’s resilience to bleaching
Local conservation actions, like rounding up predatory snails, can significantly boost the resilience of corals to climate-induced bleaching, according to a study led by...
BPA can induce multigenerational effects on ability to communicate, mouse study shows
Past studies have shown that biparental care of offspring can be affected negatively when females and males are exposed to bisphenol A (BPA); however,...
Birds have time-honored traditions, too
What makes human cultural traditions unique? One common answer is that we are better copycats than other species, which allows us to pass our...
New tool using Facebook data shows worldwide gender gap
An international group of researchers, involving scientists from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna & Medical University of Vienna and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,...
Clovis site: Montana burial site answers questions about early humans
Scientists have shown that at the Anzick site in Montana -- the only known Clovis burial site -- the skeletal remains of a young...
