We all must play the game of life with the cards we're dealt, so the common aphorism goes. In biology, this means organisms must compete through natural selection with the genes and anatomy they were… [+6730 chars]
At the mere mention of the solar system, a very high percentage of people will be interested in the planet Saturn. Why? Because of its enormous and distinct rings. With 82 moons, Saturn attracts the … [+2722 chars]
Scientists have found that a key modern group of reptiles that includes lizards and snakesknown as squamatesdiverged in the Jurassic period, 50 million years earlier than previously thought. New res… [+3676 chars]
The interacting galaxy pair NGC 1512 and NGC 1510 take center stage in this image from the Dark ... [+] Energy Camera, a state-of-the art wide-field imager on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope a… [+2773 chars]
Wealth inequality is a research topic typically reserved for humans. Now, research from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln suggests that studying wealt… [+7599 chars]
At the mere mention of the solar system, a very high percentage of people will be interested in the planet Saturn. Why? Because of its enormous and distinct rings. With 82 moons, Saturn attracts the … [+2722 chars]
There are approximately 750 species of salamander known to science, a third of which reside in North America. Now, a team of researchers led by R. Alexander Pyron, the Robert F. Griggs Associate Prof… [+3425 chars]
New ancient DNA analysis has shed light on how the black rat, blamed for spreading Black Death, dispersed across Europerevealing that the rodent colonized the continent on two occasions in the Roman … [+4015 chars]
The interacting galaxy pair NGC 1512 and NGC 1510 take center stage in this image from the Dark ... [+] Energy Camera, a state-of-the art wide-field imager on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope a… [+2773 chars]
There are approximately 750 species of salamander known to science, a third of which reside in North America. Now, a team of researchers led by R. Alexander Pyron, the Robert F. Griggs Associate Prof… [+3425 chars]
Research from the University of Warwick sheds new light on a key cause of cancer formation during cell division (or mitosis), and points towards potential solutions for preventing it from occurring. … [+2582 chars]
A team of MIT scientists is looking for black hole echoes in an effort to shed some light on the regions of spacetime that largely remain a mystery to us. See, black holes only show any semblance of … [+1858 chars]
