CT scanner captures entire woolly mammoth tusk

Researchers successfully captured CT images of an entire woolly mammoth tusk. Researchers were able to do…

Study describes new 'molecular tool' to trigger targeted immune responses

A research team presents a new approach to triggering an adaptive immune response. Click…

Stars determine their own masses

Using new simulations, astrophysicists discovered that star formation is a self-regulatory process. In other words, stars…

Human-machine interfaces work underwater, generate their own power

Scientists describe the development of a type of wearable human-machine interface device that is stretchable, inexpensive,…

Ultrasound could save racehorses from bucked shins

When racehorses enter training at about 2 years old, they can develop tiny stress fractures and…

Body posture affects how oral drugs absorbed by stomach

A common method of administering drugs is orally, by swallowing a pill or capsule. But oral…

Planet formation: ALMA detects gas in a circumplanetary disk

Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study planet formation have made the first-ever…

Robot helps reveal how ants pass on knowledge

Scientists have developed a small robot to understand how ants teach one another. Click…

Networking for food: Bats communicate and work together for more efficient foraging

Social hunting strategies are already well documented in many animal species when prey is distributed in…

Drought increases microbe-laden dust landing in Sierras

Dust from all over the world is landing in the Sierra Nevada mountains carrying microbes that…