Month: March 2012

Clouds have a profound effect on the climate, but we know surprisingly little about how…

Past waves of extinctions which removed some of the world’s largest animals were caused by…

Bioengineers have developed a self-healing hydrogel that binds in seconds, as easily as Velcro, and…

Investigating the history of water on Earth is critical to understanding the planet’s climate. One…

The brain has a remarkable ability to learn new cognitive tasks while maintaining previously acquired…

Women who have eggs that cannot mature will not become pregnant, and they cannot be…

A new kind of flexible, transparent pressure sensor, developed for use in medical applications, relies…

Materials researchers have given the engineering world a better look at the inner functions of…

Engineers have invented a superthin “nanoglue” that could be used in new-generation microchip fabrication.

What good is half an eye? Evolutionary biologists studying the origins of vision get that…