Roughly 115 million years ago, when the ancient supercontinent Gondwana was breaking apart, a mushroom…
Month: June 2017
Kestrels’ strategies for flight and hunting vary with the weather
Kestrels adapt their flight and hunting strategies to weather conditions, including solar radiation, wind speed,…
Female Steller sea lions tend to breed near their birthplace
Female Steller sea lions tend to breed at or near the rookery where they were…
Overweight children are being excluded from friendships, study finds
Overweight children have more unreciprocated friendships and frenemies than their thinner counterparts, a new study…
Retinal cells ‘go with the flow’ to assess own motion through space
A new study helps to explain how specialized retinal cells help stabilize vision by perceiving…
Homo sapiens 100,000 years earlier: Ancestors’ diet of game revealed
New fossil finds from Morocco do more than push back the origins of our species…
Scientists discover a 2-D magnet
For the first time, scientists have discovered magnetism in the 2-D world of monolayers, or…
Innovative therapy strategy for pancreatic cancer uses engineered exosomes targeting mutated KRAS gene
Genetic manipulation of exosomes, virus-sized particles released by all cells, may offer a new therapeutic…
Seeing inside coral
New technologies are making it possible to see inside coral, to examine the skeleton cores…
How to reduce shockwaves in quantum beam experiments
While skimmers have been a necessary component in atomic and molecular-beam experiments for decades, they…