These are examples of the doodling activity.
Credit: Courtesy of Drexel University
Your brain's reward pathways become active during art-making activities like doodling, according to a new Drexel University study.
Girija Kaimal, EdD, assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Health...
The all-female hybrid Ambystoma has found a simple genetic formula for success: Mate with multiple males and use equal parts of each partner's genetic material in her offspring. The finding points to the bizarre ways some animals -- from...
Allesandro Cresci heads out to the fjords with Drifting In Situ Chambers (DISC) to be deployed to study the orientation of glass eels in their natural environment The glass eels stage of the European eel, (Anguilla anguilla) waiting for...
This is a 4-D ultrasound of a fetus tracking the stimulus.
Credit: Kirsty Dunn & Vincent Reid
It's well known that young babies are more interested in faces than other objects. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology on June 8 have...
This is a detailed image of a cover wing from one of the beetles.
Credit: Martin Qvarnstrom
Synchrotron scanning can produce high-quality 3D models of well-preserved food residues from fossil faeces. That's the result of a new study, by palaeontologists...
This is a 3-D model of the virtual reconstruction of the bony labyrinth, which will be available for online visualization.
Credit: Mourlam and Orliac
Whales rely on a keen sense of hearing for their underwater existence. But whales show surprisingly vast...
The mushroom was uncovered in the Araripe Basin, in northeast Brazil, in a limestone layer called the Crato Formation.
Credit: Graphic by Danielle Ruffatto
Roughly 115 million years ago, when the ancient supercontinent Gondwana was breaking apart, a mushroom fell into...
Jaw bone of a gazelle from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. The site contains the oldest-known skeletons of modern humans. UC Davis anthropologist Teresa Steele studied animal bones from the site, showing that our ancestors ate lots of gazelle and other...
WHOI biologist Stephanie Jenouvrier, seen here holding a young Emperor penguin, says the study's findings conclude that the Emperor penguin is deserving of protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Stephanie Jenouvrier, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
If projections...
The sperm tail is made up of a complex system of filaments, connected by elastic springs
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Scientists at the University of York have shown that a sperm tail utilises interconnected elastic springs to transmit mechanical information...
Stylophora pistillata is a colorful and well-studied stony coral common in the Indo-Pacific.
Credit: Kevin Wyman/Rutgers University
Stony corals may be more resilient to ocean acidification than once thought, according to a Rutgers University study that shows they rely on proteins...
