The dog follows Wallis' gaze to the door.
Credit: Clever Dog Lab / Vetmeduni Vienna
Dogs are known to be excellent readers of human body language in multiple situations. Surprisingly, however, scientists have so far found that dogs do not follow...
In this sequence, a spinach leaf is stripped of its plant cells, a process called decellularization, using a detergent. The process leaves behind the leaf's vasculature. Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) were able to culture beating human heart...
Monte Castelo excavation in progress -- collecting samples.
Credit: University of Exeter
Amazonian farmers discovered how to manipulate wild rice so the plants could provide more food 4,000 years ago, long before Europeans colonised America, archaeologists have discovered.
Experts...
The new device is smaller than a thumbnail with a size of 0.1 x 4mm, and could be integrated into everyday electronic devices like smartphones.
Credit: CUDOS
Integrated circuits, so called chips, are used in everyday electronic equipment like mobile phones...
This photo is of a specimen of the trilobite Palaeolenus lantenoisi from the Guanshan Biota in southern Yunnan Province, China. Rarely are internal organs preserved in fossils, but this specimen shows the digestive system preserved as reddish iron oxides....
Post-doctoral psychology researcher Maria Gendron traveled to Namibia to investigate whether individuals from non-Western cultures recognize the same emotions as Westerners do in facial expressions and vocalizations.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Maria Gendron
It's a concept that had become universally understood:...
The top map shows annual average lightning density at a resolution of about 10 kilometers (6 miles), as recorded by the WWLLN, from 2005 to 2016. The bottom map shows aerosol emissions from ships crossing routes in the Indian...
New research finds that the genetic variants linked to Alzheimer's disease and heavy smoking are less frequent in people with longer lifespans, suggesting that natural selection is weeding out these unfavorable variants in some populations.
Credit: National Institutes of Health
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Copper bead from Çatalhöyük. It consists of very pure copper in metal form, as found in nature.
Credit: M. Radivojevi?, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
When and where did humans invent metal smelting? Scientists from Heidelberg University, London and Cambridge (Great Britain) have...
How does our brain learn to recognize faces?
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Scientists have long deemed the ability to recognize faces innate for people and other primates -- something our brains just know how to do immediately from...
Ringing in ears keeps brain more at attention, less at rest, study finds
Tinnitus, a chronic ringing or buzzing in the ears, has eluded medical treatment and scientific understanding. A new study by University of Illinois researchers found...
