- 6,000 years ago the Sahara Desert was tropical, so what happened?
- Virus-inspired delivery system transfers microscopic cargo between human cells
- Corals much older than previously thought, study finds
- Learning makes animals intelligent
- First signs of weird quantum property of empty space?
- Ants communicate by mouth-to-mouth fluid exchange
- Researchers create first ‘water-wave laser’
- Gut microbes contribute to recurrent ‘yo-yo’ obesity
- Back to the start: Re-activation of embryonic genes leads to muscle aging
- Intensification of land use leads to the same species everywhere
- Zika and glaucoma linked for first time in new study
- Earth’s ‘technosphere’ now weighs 30 trillion tons, research finds
- Each animal species hosts a unique microbial community and benefits from it
- Ancient rocks hold evidence for life before oxygen
- New insights into skin cells could explain why our skin doesn’t leak
- Life and death following Great Barrier Reef bleaching
- Warming: Soil carbon released into air might equal US emissions, trigger runaway climate change
- Modeling offers new perspective on how Pluto’s ‘icy heart’ came to be
- CRISPR used for first time to correct clotting in newborn and adult mice
- Sedentary lifestyle may impair academic performance in boys
- Biologists watch speciation in a laboratory flask
- Glowing crystals can detect, cleanse contaminated drinking water
- Platypus venom could hold key to diabetes treatment
- This is your brain on God: Spiritual experiences activate brain reward circuits