Discovery of the earliest drawing

The oldest known abstract drawing has been found in South Africa's Blombos Cave -- on the…

We may hear others’ footsteps, but how do we ignore our own?

A team of scientists has uncovered the neural processes mice use to ignore their own footsteps,…

Carrier status matters in foot-and-mouth disease

Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) is believed to be one of the most contagious pathogens of animals…

Thousands of breast cancer gene variants engineered and analyzed

A scientific analysis of nearly 4,000 mutations deliberately engineered into the BRCA1 gene will immediately benefit…

New plant species discovered in museum is probably extinct

A single non-photosynthetic plant specimen preserved in a Japanese natural history museum has been identified as…

Enhancing data analysis for large hadron collider

Physicists have created new techniques that deploy machine learning as a means to significantly improve data…

Fluorescence-activating beta-barrel protein made from scratch for first time

For the first time, scientists have created, entirely from scratch, a protein capable of binding to…

Gut bacteria’s shocking secret: They produce electricity

To date, most electricity-generating bacteria have come from weird environments, but researchers have found more than…

Turtle species in serious decline: Broad ecological impacts

About 61 percent of the world's 356 turtle species are threatened or already extinct, and the…

Biophysics: Pile-ups in protein transport

Motor proteins in cells can move along protein filaments in ways that interfere with each other's…