Imagine Earth completely covered in ice. While it's hard to picture all of today's oceans and land masses obscured with glaciers, such an ice-covered version of the planet was not so far-fetched millions of years ago.
Lasting from approximately 1,000...
Scenario presented at the beginning of the study interviews and then the "correct answers."
Credit: Clara Vasconcelos et al., Geosphere, and The Geological Society of America
In their paper published this week in Geosphere, authors Clara Vasconcelos, Joanna Torres, and Joana...
San Francisco State University researchers used an optimized computer program to classify sound into three categories in classroom audio recordings. Credit: San Francisco State University
Researchers at San Francisco State University have developed a tool that for the first time...
Researchers passed a weak constant electrical current through saline-soaked electrodes positioned over target regions in the scalp.
Credit: Image courtesy of Queen Mary University of London
Scientists have found a way to improve creativity through brain stimulation, according to researchers at...
Artist's concept of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Credit: NASA JPL
Astronomers have discovered some of the oldest stars in our Milky Way galaxy by determining their locations and velocities, according to a study led by scientists at Georgia State University.
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Sensors collect certain parameters such as temperature and air pressure in their proximity. Physicists from Kaiserslautern and a colleague from Hanover have succeeded for the first time in using a single cesium atom as a sensor for ultracold temperatures....
Dogs are able to identify the human having an eye on a hidden food source.
Credit: Ludwig Huber/Vetmeduni Vienna
Humans are able to interpret the behaviour of others by attributing mental states to them (and to themselves). By adopting the perspectives...
Chimpanzee muscle makes those creatures super strength. But what it might mean to the evolution of the human's muscle? Is there any visible bond between chimpanzee muscles and us, humans?
Since at least the 1920s, anecdotes and some studies have...
Blue-blooded and armored with 10 spindly legs, horseshoe crabs have perhaps always seemed a bit out of place.
First thought to be closely related to crabs, lobsters and other crustaceans, in 1881 evolutionary biologist E. Ray Lankester placed them solidly...
MIT researchers and colleagues have discovered an important—and unexpected—electronic property of graphene, a material discovered only about 17 years ago that continues to surprise scientists with its interesting physics. The work, which involves structures composed of atomically thin layers...
This image shows Claudia Fugazza and her dog demonstrating the Do As I Do Method.
Credit: Mirko Lui
People have a remarkable ability to remember and recall events from the past, even when those events didn't hold any particular importance at...
