Technique allows dolphin pregnancy exams to mirror those in humans

Ultrasound has been used for decades to study dolphin health and much of that work has…

NASA's latest astronaut graduates almost half women

NASA on Friday honored its latest class of graduating astronauts in a ceremony at the Johnson…

NASA satellite sees Blake's remnants bringing desert rain to Western Australia

NASA’s Aqua satellite provided a look at the remnant clouds and storms associated with Ex-tropical Cyclone…

Laser physics: At the pulse of a light wave

Physicists in the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich and at the Max…

Scientists find oldest-known fossilized digestive tract at 550 million years old

A 550 million-year-old fossilized digestive tract found in the Nevada desert could be a key find…

Response to fire impacts water levels 40 years into future

Salvage logging and re-seeding a forest after a wildfire helps reduce flooding and returns water levels…

Swarms of locusts threaten food security in Kenya

Large swarms of desert locusts are spreading through Kenya, after wreaking havoc in Somalia and Ethiopia,…

Hummingbirds' rainbow colors come from pancake-shaped structures in their feathers

Hummingbirds are some of the most brightly-colored things in the entire world. Their feathers are iridescent—…

Taking one for the team: How bacteria self-destruct to fight viral infections

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered how a new immune…

New function for potential tumor suppressor in brain development

The gene Cdkn1c could have been considered an open-and-shut case: Mice in which the gene is…