Research: A country’s degree of gender equality can affect men’s ability to recognize famous...
Our ability to recognize faces is a complex interplay of neurobiology, environment and contextual cues.
Now a study from Harvard Medical School suggests that country-to-country...
Research reveals past rapid Antarctic ice loss due to ocean warming
New research from the University of Otago has found the sensitive West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed during a warming period just over a million...
New cretaceous mammal provides evidence for separation of hearing and chewing modules
A joint research team led by Mao Fangyuan from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and...
A momentous view on the birth of photoelectrons
The creation of photoelectrons through ionisation is one of the most fundamental processes in the interaction between light and matter. Yet, deep questions remain...
Dull teeth, long skulls, specialized bites evolved in unrelated plant-eating dinosaurs
Herbivorous dinosaurs evolved many times during the 180 million-year Mesozoic era, and while they didn't all evolve to chew, swallow, and digest their food...
Can a single-celled organism ‘change its mind’? New study says yes
Once, single-cell life claimed sole dominion over the earth. For some three billion years, unfathomable generations of unicellular organisms ate, grew and reproduced among...
Carbon emissions from volcanic rocks can create global warming: study
Greenhouse gas emissions released directly from the movement of volcanic rocks are capable of creating massive global warming effects—a discovery which could transform the...
With cellular blueprint for lungs, researchers look ahead to organ regeneration
Using sophisticated screening across animal species, researchers at Yale have created a cellular blueprint of the human lung that will make it easier to...
Study shows lake methane emissions should prompt rethink on climate change
A new study from Swansea University has given new insights into how the greenhouse gas methane is being produced in the surface waters of...
Seismologists see future in fiber optic cables as earthquake sensors
Each hair-thin glass fiber in a buried fiber optic cable contains tiny internal flaws—and that's a good thing for scientists looking for new ways...
Star-quake vibrations lead to new estimate for Milky Way age
Data gathered by NASA's now defunct Kepler telescope provides a solution to an astronomical mystery.
Star-quakes recorded by NASA's Kepler space telescope have helped answer...
