New clues from fruit flies about the critical role of sex hormones in stem cell control

In one of the first studies addressing the role of sex hormones’ impact on stem cells…

Daytime aardvark sightings are a sign of troubled times

New research reveals what a shift from night-time to daytime activity means for the well-being of…

STS-135: Shuttle's Final Launch and the Beginning of a New Era

Space Shuttle Atlantis’ STS-135 mission launched from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center on July…

Elon Musk says full self-driving Tesla tech 'very close'

A future software update could activate full “level-five” autonomy in cars, the Tesla founder says. …

Care for cats? So did people along the Silk Road more than 1,000 years ago

Common domestic cats, as we know them today, might have accompanied Kazakh pastoralists as pets more…

Extinction: One third of all lemurs 'on the brink'

A third of all the lemur species on Earth are “one step from extinction”. …

The spin state story: Observation of the quantum spin liquid state in novel material

Aside from the deep understanding of the natural world that quantum physics theory offers, scientists worldwide…

Care for cats? So did people along the Silk Road more than 1,000 years ago

Common domestic cats as we know them today might have accompanied Kazakh pastoralists as pets more…

Researchers develop high-speed, low-power silicon-germanium chips for cloud computing

Researchers at the Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, in cooperation with CEA LETI and STMicroelectronics,…

New insights revealed in the evolution of community-level heredity

What would happen if a selection experiment was performed on thousands of communities of microbes based…