
Climate Change Likely Caused Polar Bear to Evolve Quickly
The sequencing of the oldest mammalian genome from an ancient polar bear jawbone provides clues about these animals' fraught relationship with climate change
The sequencing of the oldest mammalian genome from an ancient polar bear jawbone provides clues about these animals' fraught relationship with climate change
A test of bacterial survivability points to possible avenues for microbial survival on Mars, assuming life--and specifically Earth-like life--ever developed there
Texas researchers are planning to use a combination of tobacco plants and podlike laboratories to speed the production of new vaccines
Scholars gathered to discuss how a unique combination of human traits helped our species survive to colonize the globe
Recent research explores the effects of a schizophrenia risk factor (DISC1) and its influence over the onset of the disease
A panel of scientists challenges what it is to be distinctly human and retraces the evolutionary steps that bipedal apes made to attain human traits
A particle from Comet Wild 2, returned to Earth by the Stardust spacecraft, appears to have led a long and migratory life
How the Internet giant could use its might in closed societies
Biological nanowires link electrochemical processes more than a centimeter apart
Research shows that children born with the help of reproductive technology might be at a higher risk for genetic defects leading to chronic disorders
The neural basis for "smound" may have been uncovered
Oxygen-deprived areas in the world's oceans usually found in deeper water are moving up to offshore areas and threatening coastal marine ecosystems by spurring the die-off of some species and overpopulation of others...
How exactly did identical marine species come to inhabit both the north and south polar regions?
These southwestern lizards' asexual reproduction is no longer a secret
A reservoir of comets deep in the outer reaches of the solar system has so far escaped direct detection
The German government has big goals for vehicles running on hydrogen fuel cells. But can their model translate to the U.S. market?
Oak Ridge National Lab researchers have come up with a fast-charging prototype drive system. But is the technology ahead of its time?
The richness of the African gene pool is demonstrated by decoding DNA from the anti-apartheid activist and several Bushmen hunter-gatherers
Type Ia supernovae, often used to calibrate cosmological measurements, may arise from merging white dwarfs, after all
New insight into the fragile pharaoh's family tree shows intrafamilial marriage, and royal lives cursed by malarial infections and bodily defects
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