But bioluminescence at least in one millipede may have evolved as a way to survive in a hot, dry environment, not as a means to ward off predators, according to scientists publishing...
The researchers, Katherine and Tim Krynak, and colleagues from Universidad Indoamérica and Tropical Herping (Ecuador) co-authored a manuscript describing the new animal and skin text...
The contact lens is really two lenses in one – one lens for seeing the world as it is, another to magnify one’s surroundings by a factor of three. A single wink (the blink of one eye...
Image courtesy James LeBeau. Researchers have known for years that the properties of complex materials, such as alloys, are influenced by how the material’s component atoms are organ...
A team of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has identified the first sensor of the Earth’s magnetic field in an animal, finding in the brain of a tiny wor...
The paper also highlights how evolutionary history informs an understanding of the impact of human activities on marine species today. In some cases, similar anatomy evolved among li...
EDMONTON, Canada, June 11 – In this summer’s much anticipated blockbuster Jurassic World, actor Chris Pratt joins forces with a pack of swift and lethal velociraptors. Their big toes...
Palaeontologists identified the prehistoric species - which looked like giant salamanders - after excavating bones buried on the site of an ancient lake in southern Portugal. The spe...
The teeth of most herbivorous mammals self wear with use to create complex file surfaces for mincing plants. It’s just been assumed that dinosaurs didn’t do things like mammals, but ...
The fossil was identified by an international team led by palaeontologists at the University of Toronto (U of T) and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, as well as Pomona Coll...
New and improved Large Hadron Collider ready to do science again by Brooks Hays San Jose, Calif. (UPI) Feb 19, 2015 Researchers hope the Large Hadron Collider, set to resume...
Layers of diamond and air keep light trapped within these cavities long enough to interact with the nitrogen atom’s spin state and transfer that information via the emitted light. Im...
Now geologists at MIT have offered up an answer: India was pulled northward by the combination of two subduction zones – regions in the Earth’s mantle where the edge of one tectonic ...
Technological innovation may not have led to the colonization of Europe by anatomically modern humans, suggests new study Amsterdam, April 28, 2015 - The demise of Neanderthals may ...
However, in certain materials where the electrons are constrained in a quasi one-dimensional world, they appear to split into a magnet and an electrical charge, which can move freely...
Scientists have produced a new map of the Moon’s most unusual volcano showing that its explosive eruption spread debris over an area much greater than previously thought. The researc...
The new species, described in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, is the most complete terror bird ever discovered, with more than 90% of the skeleton exquisi...
Using simulations of an evolving protein, they show that the genetic mutations that are accepted by evolution are typically dependent on mutations that came before, and the mutations...
One of the dominant theories of our evolution is that our genus, Homo, evolved from small-bodied early humans to become the taller, heavier and longer legged Homo erectus that was ab...
And, remarkably, this so-called convergent evolution happened at least eight times across three different phyla, or animal groups, supporting the belief that necessity played a large...
Paleontologists from North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences recovered parts of Carnufex’s skull, spine and upper forelimb from the Pekin Fo...
Correlations of quantum particles help in distinguishing physical processes by Staff Writers Glasgow, UK (SPX) Feb 17, 2015 Communication security and metrology could be enh...
Flynn and Z. Jack Tseng, a National Science Foundation and Frick Postdoctoral Fellow in the Museum’s Division of Paleontology, looked at the relationship between skull shape and func...
Analogue quantum computers: Still wishful thinking? by Staff Writers Saitama, Japan (SPX) Feb 15, 2015 Traditional computational tools are simply not powerful enough to solve s...
The latest reversal is called by geologists the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary (MBB), and occurred approximately 780,000 years ago. The MBB is extremely important for calibrating the ages...