To many of us, cells are the building blocks of life, akin to bricks or Legos. But to biologist Regan Moore, a former Ph.D. student in Dan Kiehart's lab at Duke, cells are so much more: they're busy … [+1909 chars]
A small international team of researchers has found that it is possible to test navigation skills in chimpanzees using virtual reality technology. In their paper published in the journal Science Adva… [+2923 chars]
Scientists from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have developed a camera system that can recognize the colors of the infrared spectrum that doesn’t require the converting to the visible spectrum after the f… [+2800 chars]
Due to the malleable quality of liquid metals and the existence of surface oxide film, exploring the contact performance and interface charge transfer has proven difficult for systems based on liquid… [+5565 chars]
Evolutionary biology tells us that humans share a range of different traits with many other species on Earth. New research reveals that the human and octopus brain both share the same 'jumping gen… [+4371 chars]
The moon has a new double crater after a rocket body collided with its surface on March 4. New images shared by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling the moon since 2009, have… [+3234 chars]
Chaos in natural populations appears to be much more common than previously recognized, according to a new analysis by scientists at UC Santa Cruz and NOAA Fisheries.Populations of organisms in natur… [+3070 chars]
Newswise — Snakes and lizards have distinct body movement patterns. Lizards bend from side to side as they retract their legs to walk or run. Snakes, on the other hand, slither and undulate, like a w… [+9370 chars]
An international team of astronomers has assembled the power of 64 radio televisions for the first time to obtain weak hydrogen gas signatures on a biologically neutral scale. This achievement was a… [+3070 chars]
Scientists warn an imminent mass annihilation of marine species similar to one 250 million years ago that wiped out most lives in oceans Justin Penn and Curtis Deutsch, scientists from Stanford Unive… [+6976 chars]
The central core of a test model of ESAs new Ariane 6 heavy lift rocket has been assembled for the first time in the purpose-built Launcher Assembly Building at Europes Spaceport in French Guiana.Ari… [+1244 chars]
NASA says that its mission to the asteroid 16 Psyche will no longer be able to launch in 2022 after engineers were unable to verify the readiness of the spacecraft’s software. What could amount to b… [+4113 chars]
