Now, a large comparative genomic study of the olfactory genes tied to a bird’s sense of smell has revealed important differences that correlate with their ecological niches and speci...
The special issue is complemented by a package from Science’s news department. In a second Review, Sylvie Gauthier et al. discuss the traditionally resilient boreal forest, which now...
To quantify the temporary cooling induced by the largest eruptions over the last 1500 years, whose magnitude exceeded Mount Pinatubo’s, scientists usually adopt two approaches : dend...
The study was led by the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen; more than 80 researchers contributed sequence data and analyses of key ancient individuals, and from ...
The first whole genome analysis of an octopus reveals unique genomic features that likely played a role in the evolution of traits such as large complex nervous systems and adaptive ...
For centuries it has been thought that culture is what distinguishes humans from other animals, but over the past decade this idea has been repeatedly called into question. We compar...
A team of researchers has for the first time recovered a magnetic field record from ancient minerals for Iron Age southern Africa (between 1000 and 1500 AD). It has long been thought...
An international team of researchers has sequenced the first complete genome of an Iberian farmer, which is also the first ancient genome from the entire Mediterranean area. This new...
One less-studied pattern of evolution on islands is the tendency for animal populations to develop melanism–that is, dark or black coloration. J. Albert Uy and Luis Vargas-Castro of ...
A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developing a bioinorganic hybrid approach to artificial photosynth...
Scientists have mapped the radiation that exists on planet Earth using antineutrino detectors in a project entitled AGM2015. The result? This is a pretty radioactive place. The neutr...
The team focused its fieldwork on several sites in Patagonia, which have some of the best preserved fossils in the world. Plant cell patterns change with sun exposure Work by other ...
An international team of scientists have dated a species of fossil monkey found across the Caribbean to just over 1 million years old. The discovery was made after the researchers re...
A team from Princeton University and the University of Florence in Italy has discovered a quasicrystal – so named because of its unorthodox arrangement of atoms – in a 4.5-billion-ye...
The research team seeks to determine how plants sense their growth direction without gravity. In the Plant Gravity Sensing study, scientists examine whether the mechanisms of the pla...
While studying the atmosphere on Saturn’s moon Titan, scientists discovered intriguing zones of organic molecules unexpectedly shifted away from its north and south poles. We would e...
Human activity, predominantly the global economic system, is now the prime driver of change in the Earth System (the sum of our planet’s interacting physical, chemical, biological an...
NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has provided scientists with five new findings into how the sun’s atmosphere, or corona, is heated far hotter than its surface, wh...
As Mercury also has a magnetic field in operation today, the evidence for an ancient field suggests that Mercury’s dynamo has persisted for billions of years. On April 30, 2015, the ...
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On October 24, 2014, Alan Eustace donned a custom-built, 235-pound spacesuit, attached himself to a weather balloon, and rose above 135,000 feet, from which point he dove to Earth, b...
New research, reported today in The Optical Society’s (OSA) new high-impact journal Optica, describes how a team of scientists has developed, for the first time, a microscopic compon...
Skull number 5 of the Pit of Bones, as it appeared in the campaign of 1992. ( Wikimedia Commons ) The remains of the individuals have been dated to around 430,000 years ago, with an...
In this month’s issue of Physics World, Ashley Dale from the University of Bristol warns of the catastrophic and long-lasting impacts of solar super-storms and the dangers we face if...
Known as the diapsid condition, this pair of openings is also found in lizards, snakes, crocodilians and birds. The skull of modern turtles is anapsid - without openings - with the c...