A lionfish in a fish tank in Havana, Cuba, on June 2, 2016.(Credit: AFP Photo/Yamil Lage)
The lionfish, a tropical creature with poisonous barbs and a painful sting that can kill humans in rare cases, may be spreading in the...
Fossil specimen of Habelia optata from the Royal Ontario Museum. This specimen spectacularly shows some of the very large jaws under the head shield. Note also the long dorsal spines on the thorax.
Credit: Photo by Jean-Bernard Caron. Copyright: Royal...
Researchers are used to being evaluated based on indices like the impact factors of the scientific journals in which they publish papers and their number of citations. A team of 14 natural scientists from nine countries are now rebelling...
A Netherlands train. Image Credit: Flickr/Sludge G
As of the first of January this year, all public transport trains in the Netherlands are being powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS said Tuesday, calling it a world first.
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Living B. burgdorferi spirochetes were found in ticks that fed upon primates and in multiple organs after treatment with 28 days of doxycycline, report scientists.
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Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading sponsor of Lyme disease research...
Chimpanzee at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden.
Credit: Lund University
Copying the behaviour of others makes us effective learners and allow skills, knowledge and inventions to be passed on from one generation to the next. Imitation is therefore viewed as the key...
Professor Ron Clarke busy excavating the Little Foot Skull from the Sterkfontein Caves.
Credit: Wits University
South Africa's status as a major cradle in the African nursery of humankind has been reinforced with today's unveiling of "Little Foot," the country's oldest,...
Interior view of the cave and excavation trench as of the end of the 2012 field season.
Credit: João Zilhão
Neanderthals survived at least 3,000 years longer than we thought in Southern Iberia -- what is now Spain -- long after...
Thomas Gaumnitz, postdoctoral fellow in the group of ETH professor Hans Jakob Wörner with the setup that generates the shortest laser pulses in the world.
Credit: ETH Zurich
In order to fully understand the dynamics during a chemical reaction, scientists...
From an early age, children are very skilled in imitating the actions of others and are so motivated to do so that they will even copy actions for no reason. (Stock image)
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From an early age,...
In the flooded Hranicka Abyss in Czech Republic, Polish explorer Krzysztof Starnawski examines the limestone crevasse and prepares for a 2016 expedition to measure it depths. Starnawski and his Polish-Czech team discovered that the cave goes 404 metres down,...
