Scientists have reconstructed the skeleton of a prehistoric penguin species, and found that its body was unlike any previously known penguin.“It’s almost like someone took an emperor penguin and stretched it out,” says Daniel Ksepka, an avian paleontologist at North Carolina State University who helped to reassemble the fossils...
How insect sperm team up to navigate complicated female reproductive tracts
You would never have known it from her performance at the Grammy Awards ceremony on Sunday night, but the British singer Adele was not even allowed to speak for most of November and December...
Human eyeballs may have grown larger as populations migrated farther and farther from the equator, an eye-socket analysis shows
City dwellers may regard pigeons as pests, but they are among the most beautiful and divergent of all bird species
By watching evolution in progress, scientists reveal key developments in the evolution of complex life and put evolutionary theories to the test
By mid-2012, coffee shops and burger joints across the country will be required to prominently display nutritional information about their food products.
In the world of science, it’s publish or perish. Researchers who publish a greater number of papers in high-status journals are more likely then their colleagues to win tenure positions, research grants, and prestigious reputations...
New biological drugs are too complex to be regulated the old way
10 new technologies that will make a difference
Bacteria extract metals and clean up the mess afterward
Families that colonized the Canadian frontier contributed more genetic material to the modern population than folks who stayed home, says a new study
Experiments with worms show that altering an enzyme can not only lengthen their life spans, but that the longevity effect can be carried across several generations
The bankruptcy of solar panel manufacturer Solyndra last month has left many people wondering about the future of solar industry in the U.S. That turn of events didn't stop the U.S.
Controversial tests of geoengineering hardware, initially set to start in October, have been delayed. The British government agency that provides funding to the project issued the delay on September 29, in order "to allow time for more engagement with stakeholders."In mid-September, a team of U.K...
The nose really might "know" good from bad, even before the brain does
Excerpts from a new book reveal the "geo-architecture" of New York City
An experiment starting next month in the U.K. will pump water one kilometer into the air to test a new climate-cooling method that eventually could deliver sunlight-reflective sulfate particles into the stratosphere...
