Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement

An international collaboration of scientists in Iceland, Denmark and the Netherlands has for the first time…

New Delhi announces plan to combat winter toxic air

A plan to combat air pollution in New Delhi was announced by authorities Friday, as the…

The bizarre social history of beds

Groucho Marx once joked, “Anything that can’t be done in bed isn’t worth doing at all.”…

Mother cells as organelle donors

Microbiologists at LMU and UoG have discovered a recycling process in the eukaryotic parasite Toxoplasma gondii…

Sudden warming over Antarctica to prolong Australia drought

A rare phenomenon causing “the strongest Antarctic warming on record” is set to deliver more pain…

NASA’s WFIRST Will Help Uncover Universe’s Fate

NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope will launch in the will explore how dark energy has…

Breeding single-sex animal populations could help prevent disease and poverty

The creation of all-male or all-female groups of animals, known as monosex populations, has become a…

The first observation of a stable torus of fluid's resonance frequencies

A team of researchers at Laroche Laboratory, Université Paris Diderot and Université de Lyon has recently…

'Yank': A new term in biophysics

Biologists and biomedical engineers are proposing to define the term “yank” for changes in force over…

Researchers develop an optical sensor that detects very low glucose concentrations

The Optical Research Group of the Universitat Jaume I (GROC-UJI) has developed an optical nanoparticle sensor…