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Scientists have discovered that seasonally flowing streams fringe much of Antarctica's ice. Each red 'X' represents a separate drainage. Up to now, such features...

Why do people and animals naturally favor one side over the other, and what does it teach us about the brain's inner workings? Credit: ©...

A new twin study sheds light on epigenetic patterns in stem cells. Credit: © pololia / Fotolia Salk scientists and collaborators have shed light on a...

Diatoms between 0.01 and 0.02 mm, consisting of a single cell surrounded by an artificially colored silica skeleton. The alga in green is present...

The comb jelly, or ctenophore, is an ancient marine invertebrate that may be the key to understanding the transition from single-celled to multicellular animals...

Bacteriophages can potentially be used to combat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. Credit: Sabrina Green/Baylor College of Medicine Viruses that specifically kill bacteria, called bacteriophages, might one day...

Sidy Ndao and Mahmoud Elzouka, University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering, developed this thermal diode that may allow computers to use heat as an...

Jay Zarnetske explores river icings in Alaska in 2004. A new study by Zarnetske shows river icings are melting out, on average, 26 days...

What our Milky Way might look like to alien astronomers: This image of NGC 2683, a spiral galaxy also known as the "UFO Galaxy"...

Calving of a glacier. Credit: © hakat / Fotolia Studies of bones from Ice Age megafaunal animals across Eurasia and the Americas have revealed that major...

While researchers had previously hypothesized that macrophages, a class of white blood cells, played a major role in thermogenesis, the new study suggests that...