science

Researchers have identified a genetic signature found exclusively in the nerve cells that supply, or innervate, the muscles of an organism's outermost extremities: the...

Scientists at their sorting machine for Atoms (from left): Dr. Andrea Alberti, Carsten Robens, Prof. Dr. Dieter Meschede, Dr. Wolfgang Alt and Stefan Brakhane.Credit:...

Three species of Hipparion, that lived in the Iberian peninsula between 9 million years and 5 million years ago.Credit: MAURICIO ANTÓN Changing environments and ecosystems...

A laser stylus writes on a small array of multifunction pixels made by dual-function LEDs than can both emit and respond to light. Credit:...

By studying the magnetic orientations in ancient meteorites, an MIT team has determined that the solar nebula — the vast of disc of gas...

The dark red illustration shows the human counterpart to the temperature receptor of the malaria mosquito which has now been studied. The mechanism of...

This reusable, multi-layered and microfluidic device incorporates a porous growth substrate, with a physiological fluid flow, and the passive filtration of the capillaries around...

Although we spend a lot of our time online nowadays—streaming music and video, checking email and social media, or obsessively reading the news—few of...

People with lower levels of education and wealth don't just have more pain, they also have more severe pain.Image credit:Flickr/Julian K. Poorer and less-educated...

This artist's concept shows a massive, comet-like object falling toward a white dwarf. New Hubble Space Telescope findings are evidence for a belt of...

This is a 3-D printed conductive buckyball that works as an electric switch.Credit: Courtesy of Dinesh K. Patel Due to its excellent material properties of...