science
A 100-million-year partnership on the brink of extinction
This is a light microscope image of the five tentacle temnocephalan Temnosewellia c.f rouxi from cultured redclaw crayfish.
Credit: David Blair, James Cook University
A relationship...
ADHD: Symptoms of Disorder May Appear for 1st Time During Adulthood,...
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), usually diagnosed in children, may show up for the first time in adulthood, two recent studies suggest. Credit:...
Methane-producing microbes in California rocks
The Cedars, shown here, is a small, isolated set of springs flowing out of a large patch of red rock from Earth's mantle in...
Sugar substitutes may cut calories, but no health benefits for individuals...
Artificial sweeteners help individuals with obesity to cut calories and lose weight but may have negative health effects, according to researchers at York University's...
Money really does matter in relationships
From an evolutionary perspective, conditional mating strategies helped our ancestors maximize their reproductive success. Credit: © Keoni Cabral / Flickr
Our romantic choices are not...
As more states legalize marijuana, adolescents’ problems with pot decline
Marijuana plants. The number of adolescents who had problems related to marijuana -- such as becoming dependent on the drug or having trouble in...
Hubble finds clues to the birth of supermassive black holes
This artist's impression shows a possible seed for the formation of a supermassive black hole. Two of these possible seeds were discovered by an...
Infant Sleep Training: Researchers Say Letting Babies Cry Themselves to Sleep...
Deciding when and how to train infants to sleep through the night is one of the hardest issues for new parents, but a small...
Early armored dinosaur from Texas lacked cousin’s club-tail weapon, but had...
First-ever CT scans of the skull of the Cretaceous creature Pawpawsaurus allowed reconstruction to evaluate the armored dinosaur's senses of hearing and smell. Credit:...
Astrophysicists detect most luminous diffuse gamma-ray emission from Arp 220
Griffin and Dai developed the data collection methodology used to detect the gamma-ray emission from Arp 220.
Credit: University of Oklahoma and NASA
A University of...
Study helps explain sea ice differences at Earth’s poles
Location of the southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current front (white contour), with -1 degree Celsius sea surface temperature lines (black contours) on Sept. 22 each...
