In early October 2022 Jane Stadnik, a family resource specialist at the Parent Education & Advocacy Leadership (PEAL) Center in…
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A metal detectorist in Belgium has unearthed a fragment of a mysterious bronze artifact known as a Roman dodecahedron that…
A three-toed-sloth (Scientific name: Bradypus variegatus). Credit: Tauchgurke/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain A small team of researchers from the New York…
With dozens of large telescopes scattered across Earth and some well above it, you might think we’ve pretty much discovered…
Patterns of microscopic discs, rings or letters can be added to microrobots or stretchy electronics with a dissolved sugar mixture…
3D-model of DNA. Credit: Michael Ströck/Wikimedia/ GNU Free Documentation License Many genetic diseases are caused by diverse mutations spread across…
New research led by scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder suggests that eyes may really be the window to…
A shot of the spiral-shaped light in the sky above Hawaii captured Jan. 18 by the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera on…
A mysterious hand imprint carved into the wall of a previously buried moat has grabbed the attention of archaeologists in…
A visualization from space of the “Godzilla” dust storm on June 18, 2020, when desert dust traveled from the Sahara…
Scientists may finally have an explanation for why poor sleep is tied to chronic pain. A new mouse study suggests…
Climate change is decimating the worlds’ reefs. Transplanting healthy coral onto dying reefs may save them. Some transplanted corals seem…
Scientists studying the surface of Mars recently found a piece of the rocky planet smiling back at them.In an image…
An mRNA vaccine has been found to induce antibody responses against all 20 known subtypes of influenza A and B…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An international team of scientists, including NYU Abu Dhabi researcher Nikolaos Georgakarakos and others from the…
Scientist Leona Zacharias was a rare woman. She graduated from Barnard College in 1927 with a bachelor’s degree in biology, followed…
To stay cool in searing temperatures, the prickly echidna, an egg-laying mammal that lives Down Under, employs a somewhat unusual…
Spiral galaxies represent one of the most spectacular features in our universe. Among them, spiral galaxies in the distant universe…
[]People who experience generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) exhibit excessive concern about multiple events or activities most days of the week.…
Science has long known that people living in what is now Siberia once walked (and later paddled boats) across the…
The fossilization process is an unrelenting slog of decay, compression and erosion that can take millions of years and favors…
A good night’s sleep is vital for optimal health. Not getting enough shut-eye can affect a person’s mood and concentration…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For millions of years, nature has basically been getting by with just a few elements from…
Researchers have reproduced the entire biochemical pathway for how coca plants make cocaine in another plant, which could help people…
Researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK, who identified a novel mechanism for platelet activation in pathogenic blood clotting (thrombosis)…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced the achievement of fusion ignition…
For 900 years, a corroded medieval pendant discovered in a trash heap in Germany has been hiding a religious treasure:…
A fragment of the Tissint meteorite, which crashed to Earth in 2011. (Image credit: Ludovic Ferriere/Natural History Museum Vienna) (opens…
New UC Davis research shows how an internal circadian clock controls the opening of individual florets in concentric rings in…
Fluorescent Flies: Fruit flies expressing red eye and green body fluorescent markers demonstrated the viability of a new system for…