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Archaeologists from the University of York have conducted pioneering analysis on historic ivory, revealing where East African elephants roamed and where they were hunted in the 19th century.
Eastern Africa has been a major source of elephant ivory...
Wearing a virtual reality headset, a researcher tries out the Stanford Ocean Acidification Experience, a new VR science education tool. (Image credit: Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab)
Free science education software, available to anyone with virtual reality gear, holds promise...
This model shows that a cryptochrome exists as a single protein in the dark, and becomes two proteins bound together that regulate plant growth, as depicted by a flowering Arabidopsis plant on the right. The BIC protein inhibits cryptochromes....
Wild-bearded capuchin monkey in Serra da Capivara National Park, Brazil, unintentionally creating fractured flakes and cores.Credit: Michael Haslam/ Primate Archaeology Group
Researchers have observed wild-bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil deliberately break stones, unintentionally creating flakes that share many of the...
Magpies do not always have the best reputation, as they are generally known for their tendency to steal shiny things. Also other bird species tested for prosociality so far turned out to be either indifferent to benefitting others or...
Five years ago, the largest single release of human-made radioactive discharge to the marine environment resulted from an accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. Approximately 80 percent of the fallout happened over the Pacific Ocean....
Gastrodia kuroshimensis discovered on Kuroshima.Credit: (c)Kenji Suetsugu
Project Associate Professor Kenji Suetsugu (Kobe University Graduate School of Science) has discovered a new species of plant on the subtropical Japanese island of Kuroshima (located off the southern coast of Kyushu in...
Jumping spider.Credit: Hoy Lab, Cornell University
While jumping spiders are known to have great vision, a new Cornell University study proves for the first time that spiders can hear at a distance. The discovery runs counter to standard textbook wisdom...
Dinosaur skin impression on rock.Credit: Víctor Fondevilla/UAB
Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in collaboration with the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), have discovered in Vallcebre (Barcelona) an impression fossil with the surface of the skin...
This photograph shows a naked mole rat climbing over chili peppers. The naked mole rat is unable to feel pain from hot chili peppers, and other stimuli that would hurt most other animals.Credit: Thomas Park, PhD University of Illinois...
Tarsiers – tiny, carnivorous primates – are our distant cousins, according to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who sequenced and analyzed the tarsier genome. Their findings place tarsiers on the branch of the primate...
