Former astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, dies aged 95. Pallab Ghosh…
Month: December 2016
Devastating decline for the giraffe
Over 700 newly recognized bird species have been assessed for the latest update of The…
Climate change is already causing widespread local extinction in plant and animal species
Extinctions related to climate change have already happened in hundreds of plant and animal species…
Pioneering nanotechnology captures energy from people
The day of charging cellphones with finger swipes and powering Bluetooth headsets simply by walking…
Mobile money lifts Kenyan households out of poverty
Mobile-money services have had notable long-term effects on poverty reduction in Kenya — especially among female-headed…
Researchers map neural circuitry of songbird learning
Researchers have begun to map the brain circuitry responsible for cultural transmission and species specificity…
Neuroimaging categorizes four depression subtypes
Patients with depression can be categorized into four unique subtypes defined by distinct patterns of…
Scientists develop new drug screening tool for dystonia
Researchers have identified a common mechanism underlying separate forms of dystonia, a family of brain…
Fishery bycatch rapidly driving Mexico’s vaquita to extinction
One of the most sophisticated networks of acoustic detectors ever developed for wildlife science has…
Illusion reveals that the brain fills in peripheral vision
What we see in the periphery, just outside the direct focus of the eye, may…