3-D movies reveal how cuttlefish determine distance when striking at prey
While cuttlefish wearing glasses is an unexpected sight, a University of Minnesota-led research team built an underwater theater and equipped the cephalopods with specialized...
Double-checking the science: Ocean acidification does not impair the behavior of coral reef fishes
Sometimes it helps to check the facts. You may be surprised what you find.
Over the last decade, several high-profile scientific studies have reported that tropical...
100 million years in amber: Researchers discover oldest fossilized slime mold
Most people associate the idea of creatures trapped in amber with insects or spiders, which are preserved lifelike in fossil tree resin. An international...
Viking runestone linked to fears of climate change: study
One of the world's most famous runestones is now believed to have been erected by Vikings fearing a repeat of a previous cold climate...
Human immune cells produced in a dish in world first
One day the advance could lead to a patient's own skin cells being used to produce new cells for cancer immunotherapy or to test...
Planet WASP-12b is on a death spiral, say scientists
Earth is doomed—but not for 5 billion years. Our planet will be roasted as our sun expands and becomes a red giant, but the...
Early humans revealed to have engineered optimized stone tools at Olduvai Gorge
Early Stone Age populations living between 1.8 - 1.2 million years ago engineered their stone tools in complex ways to make optimised cutting tools,...
Using relativistic effects for laser fusion: A new approach for clean power
A team of researchers at Osaka University has investigated a new method for generating nuclear fusion power, showing that the relativistic effect of ultra-intense...
Finding a new way to fight late-stage sepsis by boosting cells’ antibacterial properties
Researchers have developed a way to prop up a struggling immune system to enable its fight against sepsis, a deadly condition resulting from the...
Birds and bats have strange gut microbiomes—probably because they can fly
At a time when kombucha is commonplace on cafe menus and "probiotic-fortified" has become the newest health buzzword, our guts have never been more...
Evolution on the vine: A history of tomato domestication in Latin America
The common cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L. var. lycopersicum; or (SLL)) is among the world's most widely grown vegetable crops, from big agricultural farms...
