This is a Mursi woman of Nilo-Saharan ancestry. Nilo-Saharan pastoralist populations possess some of the darkest skin in Africa. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found mutations associated with both light and dark pigmentation in a genome-wide association study...
Nelson Sepulveda is a nanotechnology researcher and associate professor of engineering at Michigan State University.
Credit: Michigan State University
A paper-thin, flexible device created at Michigan State University not only can generate energy from human motion, it can act as a...
AWARE instruments at the WAIS Divide field camp in central West Antarctica in December 2015 under a spectacular optical display ("sun dog") due to atmospheric ice crystals.
Credit: Colin Jenkinson, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
An area of West Antarctica more than...
Models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may be underestimating future warming.
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The climate models that project greater amounts of warming this century are the ones that best align with observations of the current...
This image shows a false-colored electron microscope image of the University of Minnesota device. The blue area marks the topological insulator on top of the optical waveguide in red.
Credit: University of Minnesota
Light can generate an electrical current in semiconductor...
Hard tick grasping a dinosaur feather preserved in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber. Modified from the open access article published in Nature Communications: 'Ticks parasitised feathered dinosaurs as revealed by Cretaceous amber assemblages.'
Credit: Paper authors.
Fossilised ticks discovered trapped and preserved...
Generosity makes people happier, even if they are only a little generous, suggests new research.
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Generosity makes people happier, even if they are only a little generous. People who act solely out of self-interest are less...
Model of an island volcano. During the last transition to glacial conditions the decreasing pressure at the seafloor could have induced increased lava- and carbon dioxide emissions.
Credit: Jörg Hasenclever
Climate evolution shows some regularities, which can be traced throughout long...
Heliofungia actiniformis uses pulsed inflation to try to survive coral bleaching.
Credit: Brett Lewis, QUT
Coral researchers have for the first time captured the specific behaviour of a coral as it's bleaching.
The team from QUT in Australia used a clever combination...
Evidence from ancient volcanic deposits suggests that lunar magma contained substantial amounts of water, bolstering the idea that the moon's interior is water-rich.
Credit: Olga Prilipko Huber
A new study of satellite data finds that numerous volcanic deposits distributed across the...
Helobdella robusta, a tiny freshwater leech that attacks and kills snails.
Credit: Photo by Ajna S. Rievra/UC Berkeley
Leeches, despite the yuck factor, have captured the hearts of two University of California, Berkeley, scientists who are part of a team...
