Scientists investigated the camouflage of ground-nesting birds in Zambia, using sophisticated digital imaging to demonstrate…
Month: January 2016
Ancient extinction of giant Australian bird points to humans
The first direct evidence that humans played a substantial role in the extinction of the…
You’ll never ‘be-leaf’ what makes up this battery!
Scientists have a new recipe for batteries: Bake a leaf, and add sodium. They used…
Easier way to make ‘bijels,’ a complex new form of liquid matter
Getting the interfaces between the two liquids into different shapes unlocks new kinds of behaviors…
Monstrous cloud boomerangs back to our galaxy
New Hubble telescope observations suggest that a high-velocity gas cloud was launched from the outer…
Promising results from clinical study using plasmid DNA gene therapy
A new clinical study reports the promising results of an innovative DNA-based gene therapy that…
First recombinant influenza vaccine comes to Mexico
In October 2015, the Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk (COFEPRIS) gave Mexico the…
Food additive that may prevent skin cancer revealed by scientists
A compound found in the natural food additive annatto prevents the formation of cancer cells…
Researchers’ preclinical trial upends conventional wisdom about responses to fear
For more than a century scientists have recognized ‘freezing’ as the natural fear response. But…
Teens take fewer risks around slightly older adults
Adolescents are known risk takers, especially when they’re surrounded by same-aged peers. But new research…