Many believe our particularly large brain is what makes us human—but is there more to it? The brain’s shape, as...
When cells exchange metabolic products with other cells, they live longer. This new finding comes from a research team at...
As anyone who has ever attended a cocktail party can tell you, shedding inhibitions makes you more talkative and possibly...
People flock to shopping malls for all sorts of reasons. But money isn’t the only thing they leave behind—and shopping...
The length of a specific generation can tell us a lot about the biology and social organization of humans. Now,...
New research has uncovered that pollen preserved in 250 million year old rocks contain compounds that function like sunscreen, these...
A recent study by Prof. Chong Kang’s group from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)...
A research team led by Dr. Yuanliang Zhai from the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong (HKU),...
From the tropics to the poles, from the sea surface to hundreds of feet below, the world’s oceans are teeming...
If you had the grooming habits of a Neanderthal, perhaps it’s a good thing your nose wasn’t as sensitive to...
Since 1934, the Redfield ratio—the recurring ratio of 106:16:1 of carbon to nitrogen to phosphorus (C:N:P) in phytoplankton and the...
Not everybody can travel to Antarctica for months at a time to study the continent’s unique ecology, flora and fauna....
