In a recent paper in Nature, a team of scientists led by Kimihiko Nakajima, an astronomer at the Kanazawa University, Japan, ...

Seen just 800 million years after the big bang, an object called LAP1-B is a galactic building block that seems to hold some ...

The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn’t use the energy ...

Researchers at the Technion have discovered how changes in genetic regulatory sequences can lead to alterations in the form and structure of animals—even when genetic regulatory systems are stable and ...

Cumulative culture -- the accumulation of technological modifications and improvements over generations -- allowed humans to adapt to a diversity of environments and challenges. But, it is unclear ...

New fossil analysis: Scientists reexamined ancient Brazilian fossils and found they were microbial, not early animal traces. Advanced imaging used: Nanoscale tomography and Raman spectroscopy revealed ...