Month: February 2012

Researchers have discovered an answer to the long-standing mystery of how brain cells can both…

Before our Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation devices can tell us where we are, the…

A set of recent papers, many of which draw on data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft,…

Linear dunes, widespread on Earth and Saturn’s moon, Titan, are generally considered to have been…

From spaghetti-like sea anemones to blobby jellyfish to filigreed oak trees, each species in nature…

For decades, scientists have understood that there is a genetic component to intelligence, but a…

Scientists have developed a process for creating glass-based, inorganic light-emitting diodes that produce light in…

People with higher trust in their feelings were more likely to correctly predict a variety…

Using the exceptionally bright and powerful X-ray beams of the Advanced Light Source, researchers have…