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Kelp forests are a unique habitat that suffers under heat stress.Credit: © usoceangov / Flickr Did you know that heatwaves not only occur on land,...

Composite photo of the slowest-spinning neutron star discovered so far (9-2016): background stars photographed in optical wavelengths; colorful cloud is the supernova remnant RCW...

Salk Institute researchers and collaborators develop novel cancer treatment that halts fat synthesis in cells. Placebo-treated cells (left) have far more lipid (red) production...

Samples of the world's oldest precisely dated rock. Credit: University of Alberta Addressing fundamental unknowns about the earliest history of Earth’s crust, scientists have precisely...

Financial traders are better at reading their 'gut feelings' than the general population -- and the better they are at this ability, the more...

Image Credit: Flickr/sermoa Pigeons can learn to distinguish real words from non-words by visually processing their letter combinations, surprising new research from the University of...

Four cells in different stages of infection from a malarial parasite as analyzed by a new algorithm. As the parasite matures in the images...

What does drinking beer really do? A new study has shown that drinking beer affects the way we see specific emotions and allows us...

The study suggests that alpha-synuclein acts as a bond between cellular transporters in healthy brains, regulating their flow and therefore controlling the signalling process....

A pilot study from a group of Dutch scientists implies that being told that an image is an artwork automatically changes our response, both...

The ice is drilled in Greenland and Antarctica and is transported back home to the laboratory where it is prepared and made ready the...