Female monkeys with female friends live longer

Female white-faced capuchin monkeys living in the tropical dry forests of northwestern Costa Rica may have…

Deep earthquakes suggest well-hydrated Mariana subduction zone

On the surface, subduction zones manifest as oceanic trenches, the deepest of which is the Mariana…

Using a manganese polymer to separate xylene isomers

A team of researchers at Zhejiang University in China, working with colleagues at Rutgers University in…

Landslides increasingly threaten the world's urban poor

Over the last fifty years, disasters caused by landslides and floods have become ten times more…

Researchers develop a nanoparticle that acts as a heater and a thermometer

Researchers at Kanazawa University report in ACS Nano the development of a nanoparticle that acts as…

Commonly used chemical fixation causes aggregation artifact

Researchers at Kanazawa University report in Communications Biology that using common chemicals for fixing living cell…

New quantum whirlpools with tetrahedral symmetries discovered in a superfluid

An international collaboration of scientists has created and observed an entirely new class of vortices—the whirling…

Long-term mystery on muscle mechanisms may be solved, and may lead to better drugs

New knowledge about the very smallest muscle components, myosin and actin, can contribute to more effective…

Rainwater unsafe to drink due to chemicals: study

Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due to levels of toxic chemicals known…

Heat, drought rekindle huge wildfire in southwest France

A fire that destroyed thousands of hectares of tinder-dry forest in southwest France has flared again…