Technology and therapy help individuals with chronic spinal cord injuries take steps
Of four research participants living with traumatic, motor complete spinal cord injury, two are able to walk over ground with epidural stimulation following epidural...
Bacteria’s password for sporulation hasn’t changed in 2.7 billion years
When it comes to changing their passwords, bacteria are just as bad as you and me—maybe even worse. A Carnegie Mellon University research team...
Team discovers new species of dazzling, neon-colored fish
On a recent expedition to the remote Brazilian archipelago of St. Paul's Rocks, a new species of reef fish—striped a vivid pink and yellow—enchanted...
Tracking the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua to its home
A team of astronomers led by Coryn Bailer-Jones of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has tracked the interstellar object 'Oumuamua to several possible...
Ready-to-use recipe for turning plant waste into gasoline
Bioscience engineers at KU Leuven, Belgium, already knew how to make gasoline in the laboratory from plant waste such as sawdust. Now, the researchers...
Schoolyard tree cover predicts math performance in high-poverty urban schools
What if improving academic performance in some of the nation's most disadvantaged and lowest-achieving schools was as easy as planting trees in the schoolyard?...
Dust storms on Titan spotted for the first time
Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed what appear to be giant dust storms in equatorial regions of Saturn's moon Titan. The discovery, described...
Eight of 10 people with cancer risk genes don’t know it
Genomic screening of more than 50,000 people shows that more than 80% of those who carry an identifiable genetic risk for breast, ovarian, prostate,...
Common weed killer linked to bee deaths
The world's most widely used weed killer may also be indirectly killing bees. New research from The University of Texas at Austin shows that...
Martian moon may have come from impact on home planet, new study suggests
The weird shapes and colors of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos have inspired a long-standing debate about their origins.
The dark faces of...
Ancient Mars had right conditions for underground life, new research suggests
A new study shows evidence that ancient Mars probably had an ample supply of chemical energy for microbes to thrive underground.
"We showed, based on...
