This reproduction of The Starry Night contains 65,536 glowing pixels and is just the width of a dime across.Credit: Paul Rothemund and Ashwin Gopinath/Caltech
Using folded DNA to precisely place glowing molecules within microscopic light resonators, researchers at Caltech have...
The Arctic pteropod Clione limacina. Credit: Image courtesy of Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Algae that live in and under the sea ice play a much greater role for the Arctic food web than previously...
The ability of finches, sparrows, and many other birds to see a visual world hidden to us is explained in a study published in the journal eLife.
Birds can be divided into those that can see ultraviolet (UV) light and...
A collage of mandibles from extant and extinct Old World monkeys and apes that were included in the study. Credit: Leslea Hlusko, UC Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley paleontologists have identified distinctive features of primate teeth that allow them to...
Female birds 'fly the nest' from sparsely populated breeding sites leaving behind small groups of lonely males -- according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
Research published in the Journal of Animal Ecology shows for the first...
This is a photo of a rare Shepherds Beaked Whale taken off the coast of Dunedin, New Zealand late last month by researchers on a University of Otago research vessel.Credit: Tom Brough
For the first time in New Zealand waters...
By recording activity in the brain of a restrained cockroach, researchers found the insects use sight and a vestibular-like system to track direction and angle.
Credit: Varga et al/Current Biology
Rats, men and cockroaches appear to have a similar GPS in...
Detail of the Oesia fossil remains in margaretia 'tube'.Credit: Karma Nanglu
The fossilised remnants of tube-like "dwellings" which housed a primitive type of prehistoric sea worm on the ocean floor have been identified in a new study.
According to researchers, the...
The snow leopard has long been one of the least studied -- and therefore poorly understood -- of the large cats. No longer.
Scientists studying snow leopards now say the big cats may be more common than previously thought. New...
A Lithornithid skull from the Calciavis grandei fossil, found in Green River Formation of Wyoming.
Credit: Sterling Nesbitt/Virginia Tech
Exceedingly well-preserved bird fossil specimens dating 50 million years represent a new species that is a previously unknown relative of the modern-day...
The preservation of Cretaceous mollusk fossils from Seymour Island is excellent, with shells preserving original mother-of-pearl material as in these two specimens of Eselaevitrigonia regina. Credit: Sierra V. Petersen
A new reconstruction of Antarctic ocean temperatures around the time the...
