Month: May 2013

During the late Pleistocene, a diverse assemblage of large-bodied mammals inhabited the “mammoth steppe” of…

In many neurodegenerative diseases the neurons of the brain are over-stimulated and this leads to…

Studies of human mobility usually focus on either the small scale — determining the origins,…

Steelmaking, a major emitter of climate-altering gases, could be transformed by a new process.

Like pioneers in search of a better life, bacteria on a surface wander around and…

Children on dialysis for severe kidney disease have a dramatically reduced risk of death compared…

A common nutritional supplement may be part of the magic in improving the survival rates…

Children with autism see simple movement twice as quickly as other children their age, and…

Using MRI, neuroscientists have found significant differences in brain anatomy when comparing men and women…

A carnivorous, cannibalistic tadpole may play a role in understanding the evolution and development of…