- Molecule that gives energy-burning brown fat its identity could lead to drugs for obesity
- Compassion helped Neanderthals to survive, new study reveals
- Breeding trouble: Meta-analysis identifies fishy issues with captive stocks
- Elephant declines imperil Africa’s forests
- 15 new planets confirmed around cool dwarf stars
- Water’s mysterious phase transitions
- Sewing atomic lattices seamlessly together
- Commercial pesticides: Not as safe as they seem
- Warm Arctic means colder, snowier winters in northeastern US, study says
- Lab surprised to find its drug-delivery system can help even without drugs
- Historical lead exposure may be linked to 256,000 premature deaths from cardiovascular disease in adults in the USA each year
- Arrested development: Hubble finds relic galaxy close to home
- Unique diamond impurities indicate water deep in Earth’s mantle
- Global fisheries to be, on average, 20 percent less productive in 2300, UCI study finds
- The enemy within: Gut bacteria drive autoimmune disease
- Memories can be decoded from brain waves during sleep, say researchers
- The early bird got to fly: Archaeopteryx was an active flyer
- Artificial and biological cells work together as mini chemical factories
- Mutating Ebola’s key protein may stop replication
- Modern humans flourished through ancient supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago
- Is your stress changing my brain?
- A lifetime of regular exercise slows down aging, study finds
- Fiber-fermenting bacteria improve health of type 2 diabetes patients
- Hawaiian stick spiders re-evolve the same three guises every time they island hop