Clay subsoil at Earth's driest place may signal life on Mars

Diverse microbes discovered in the clay-rich, shallow soil layers in Chile’s dry Atacama Desert suggest that…

The Air Force Association Signs Lockheed Martin as Presenting Sponsor for its StellarXplorers Program

The Air Force Association Signs Lockheed Martin as Presenting Sponsor for its StellarXplorers Program …

NASA ROSES-20 Amendment 68: New Opportunity in ROSES: E.11 Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM)

NASA ROSES-20 Amendment 68: New Opportunity in ROSES: E.11 Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface…

Minor fluctuations in sound make it hard to identify in which concert hall music is played

The volume and timbre of music have a significant impact on how people perceive the acoustics…

Boosting treatments for metastatic melanoma

Clinician-scientists say that new findings might have identified a treatment-boosting drug to enhance effectiveness of therapies…

Nervous systems of insects inspire efficient future AI systems

Study explores functions of fruit fly’s nervous system in food seeking / results valuable for the…

Seabirds' response to abrupt climate change transformed sub-Antarctic island ecosystems

A 14,000-year paleoecological reconstruction of the sub-Antarctic islands done by an international research team including HKU…

When new males take over, these female primates hurry up and mature

Most mammals — including humans and other primates — reach sexual maturity early or late depending…

Human intelligence just got less mysterious

Neuroscience experts have released research that breaks with the past fifty years of neuroscientific opinion, arguing…

Two motivational artificial beings are better than one for enhancing learning

Researchers have found that offline consolidation of a motor task was enhanced by praise delivered by…