The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences gravitated to black holes this year in their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Sometimes it helps to step outside your specialty and read publications that view the familiar world from entirely new perspectives.
Researchers have discovered that infant brains have an innate structure prewired to read words and letters, connected closely to the brain's language region.
The pterosaurs, more popularly known as pterodactyls, were the first vertebrate animals to evolve powered flight, according to most scientists. They are thought to have achieved sky dominance almost 80 million years before modern birds.
A new software package aims to aid drug design and biomedical research by making it easy to construct 3D images of proteins and other molecules using one of the world’s most powerful microscopes.
Animals who lived in an ancient period, which until the mid-20th Century lacked evidence in the fossil record, shared much of the same complexity and similarity as do living things today, the journal "Nature" recently reported.
The staff and administration at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently honored the scientific contributions of Angelika Amon, an MIT cell biologist who pioneered research on chromosome imbalance, after her passing at the age of 53.
Alleging a secretive, clandestine cabal has been conspiring to prevent politicians from taking decisive action to save the planet from impending doom, Brown University recently launched the Climate Social Science Network to track down and expose the conspiracy their scholars have theorized exists.
Using “lab on a chip” technology, Stanford engineers have created a microlab half the size of a credit card that can detect COVID-19 in just 30 minutes.
An international team of scientists sequenced 27 ancient dog genomes and found that all modern dogs share a common ancestry distinct from today's wolves.
New research has overturned the basic assumption in ecology and evolution of a trade-off between food availability to an organism and how efficiently it can process it.
The United States could be in serious danger of losing its role as a world leader in technological innovation unless there is a significant reversal in current trends.
Michigan State University researchers have identified a potential genetic target for treating an especially painful and invasive form of endometriosis.
'I've worked in this field for more than 10 years and have not seen anything like this.'
A small, dome-shaped 23-gram weight made of limestone, dating back to the 10th century BCE, was discovered in excavations near the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, according to an Oct. 13 Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs press release.
Omega-3 fatty acids are essential for the human body's functioning, but scientists recently discovered that too much omega-3 fatty acid EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) alone can damage learning and memory function in mice.
The chemicals being released into the oceans by microplastics – the incredibly small particles left behind as plastics break down – could be causing major changes in how mussels behave.
A drug delivery device inspired by the teeth of a hookworm can significantly increase the half-life of drugs, researchers have found.