Dogs found able to perceive slight changes in human spoken words

A team of researchers with the University of Sussex, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and…

As a way to fight climate change, not all soils are created equal

As the planet warms due to excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a solution for drawing…

Unusual X-ray spectral variability observed in NGC 1313 X-1

An ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) in the NGC 1313 galaxy, known as NGC 1313 X-1, showcases…

Migratory birds shrinking as climate warms, new analysis of four-decade record shows

North American migratory birds have been getting smaller over the past four decades, and their wings…

Researchers discover a new, young volcano in the Pacific

Researchers from Tohoku University have discovered a new petit-spot volcano at the oldest section of the…

How the U.S. hydrogen bomb secrets disappeared

Given a choice of items to lose on a train, a top-secret document detailing the newly…

Bio-inspired hydrogel can rapidly switch to rigid plastic

Hokkaido University researchers have developed a hydrogel that does the opposite of what polymer-based materials, like…

3-D printing is helping museums in repatriation and decolonization efforts

Manchester Museum recently returned items taken from Australia more than 100 years ago to Aboriginal leaders,…

Scientists develop tomographic method to visualize state of 'solitary' electrons

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), working with the University of Latvia, the University of…

Big data toolkit to mine the dark genome for precision medicine

EPFL researchers have developed Big Data tools for identifying new gene functions. The work identifies millions…