Study supports contested 35-year-old predictions, shows that observable novae are just 'tip of the iceberg'

Almost 35 years ago, scientists made the then-radical proposal that colossal hydrogen bombs called novae go…

Rats give more generously in response to the smell of hunger

How do animals that help their brethren manage to prioritize those most in need? A study…

Lack of media skepticism tied to belief in rape myths

People who tend to recognize similarities between people they know and people depicted in the media…

Simulated 'Frankenfish brain-swaps' reveal senses control body movement

Plenty of fictional works like Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein have explored the idea of swapping out a…

More men, more problems? Not necessarily, study finds

Men are more prone to competitive risk taking and violent behavior, so what happens when the…

Humans are not the first to repurpose CRISPR

In recent years, the development of CRISPR technologies and gene-editing scissors in particular have taken the…

How to win more B2B contracts with effective e-sales

Researchers from the University of Nebraska, University of Missouri, and Case Western Reserve University published a…

The physics that drives periodic economic downturns

A professor at Duke University says that the way spilled milk spreads across the floor can…

All microgastrinae wasps from around the world finally together in a 1,089-page monograph

With 3,000 known species and thousands more left to describe, the wasps of the subfamily Microgastrinae…

Engineers model mutations causing drug resistance

Whether it is a drug-resistant strain of bacteria, or cancer cells that no longer react to…