500-million-year-old fossilized brains of stanleycaris prompt a rethink of the evolution of insects and...
ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) revealed new research based on a cache of fossils that contains the brain and nervous system of a half-billion-year-old...
A major step forward for organ biofabrication
Heart disease — the leading cause of death in the U.S. — is so deadly in part because the heart, unlike other organs,...
Rising Injustice – The Poetry of Science
Buildings rise with the heat,pathetic monumentsto the wretched needsof the insatiable few.Stadia,hotels,offices,towers,parking lots:architectural follieslined up as garish dominoesupon the heaving, sweatingbacksof the common...
Running, dreaming improve left brain-right brain communication
You’re out jogging and suddenly notice a low-hanging tree branch in your path. You quickly lower your head, narrowly avoiding the branch, and...
Physicists work to shrink microchips with first one-dimensional helium model system
Microchips are everywhere, running computers and cars, and even helping people find lost pets. As microchips grow smaller, faster and capable of doing...
Personalized Fonts Speed Up Reading, Maintain Comprehension
University of Central Florida researchers are part of a team who has found that there’s no one-size-fits all approach to digital reading and...
Solar-powered chemistry uses carbon dioxide and water to make feedstock for fuels, chemicals
The gallium nitride nanowires used the light energy to free electrons and the positively charged spaces they leave behind, known as holes. The...
Behold: the Cell’s Skeleton in Motion
To many of us, cells are the building blocks of life, akin to bricks or Legos. But to biologist Regan Moore, a former Ph.D....
Why Does the Inside of the Solar System Not Spin Faster? An Old Mystery...
The motion of a tiny number of charged particles may solve a longstanding mystery about thin gas disks rotating around young stars, according...
An appetite map in the brain
Let’s face it. As enticing as the idea of starting lunch with a chocolate cake might be, few would actually make that choice...
