The first study to actually count the number of cortical neurons in the brains of a number of carnivores, including cats and dogs, has found that dogs possess significantly more neurons than cats, raccoons have as many neurons as...
Nottingham Dollies are sheep cloned from adult cells, looking similar to this sheep.
Credit: © Alexandr Vasilyev / Fotolia
Original concerns that cloning caused early-onset osteoarthritis (OA) in Dolly the sheep are unfounded, say experts at the University of Nottingham and...
Penn researchers leading the DARPA-funded Restoring Active Memory project constructed the first whole-brain map of electrical connectivity in the brain based on data from nearly 300 neurosurgical patients. Above, the image on the left represents the ~30,000 electrodes used...
The movement of seismic waves through the material of the mantle allows scientists to image Earth's interior, just as a medical ultrasound allows technicians to look inside a blood vessel. Image is courtesy of Edward Garnero and Allen McNamara's...
Chimpanzee.
Credit: © EBFoto / Fotolia
The most dramatic divergence between humans and other primates can be found in the brain, the primary organ that gives our species its identity.
However, all regions of the human brain have molecular...
Medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis) on sandy beach, Tortuga Bay, Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands.
Credit: © Wilfred / Fotolia
The arrival 36 years ago of a strange bird to a remote island in the Galapagos archipelago has provided direct genetic evidence...
Plant geneticist Professor Marja Timmermans in the green house with rockcress or Arabidopsis.
Credit: Gunther Willinger/University of Tübingen
When a multicellular organism develops, each cell needs to know its place in relation to all other cells. This means cells need...
Right whale feeding, sighted during June 8, 2014, during survey.
Credit: NOAA image. Image collected under MMPA Research permit number 17355.
When 15 North Atlantic right whales turned up dead in U.S. and Canadian waters in the summer of 2017,...
Dr. Bogdan Onac finds bat guano to be a record of paleo-data.
Credit: Dr. Bogdan Onac, University of South Florida
People have long known that bat guano -- the polite term for what the flying mammals leave on the floors...
Jellyfish sitting on the floor of their tank.
Credit: Caltech
At first glance, humans seem to have very little in common with Cassiopea, a primitive jellyfish. Cassiopea is brainless, spineless, and spends essentially its entire life sitting upside down on...
This is "Olimpia da Farfengo" the female Mediterranean water buffalo that researchers sequenced.
Credit: Caterina Cambuli
An international team of researchers led by the University of Adelaide has published the full genome of the water buffalo -- opening the way...
