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6 May 2015, 8:22 am by Tom Smith
The zombie apocalypse may be more than just a horror story for some bacteria. [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 2:45 pm by Tom Smith
Called the Santa Anas, the dry winds typically hit in late fall and are infamous in the Golden State. [read post]
29 Sep 2016, 7:14 am by Tom Smith
The two animals at the forefront of this discussion are the woolly mammoth, a hairy, close relative of the elephant that lived in the Arctic, and the passenger pigeon, a small, gray bird with a pinkish red breast once extremely common in North America. [read post]
22 Oct 2016, 6:07 pm by Tom Smith
A few weeks later, however, Earthman was speeding up a 3.2-kilometer hill with 20 other young participants in a study, called AltitudeOmics, that has now produced a dozen publications. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 9:20 am by Tom Smith
Whether they're from humans, whales, or elephants, the brains of many mammals are covered with elaborate folds. [read post]
22 Oct 2016, 6:10 pm by Tom Smith
Fragmentary fossils found in southwestern Texas 3 decades ago belong to a strange group of extinct animals known as “bear dogs,” according to a new study. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 9:19 am by Tom Smith
On average, people receiving the placebo were willing to forfeit about 55 cents per shock to avoid harming themselves, and 69 cents to avoid harming others. [read post]
7 Dec 2015, 4:05 pm by Tom Smith
Like people, cockroaches like to hang out together, especially when they have nothing else to do. [read post]
31 Aug 2015, 8:47 am by Tom Smith
“They’ve succeeded finally in achieving a lifetime limited only by the power available to the system,” says particle physicist Burton Richter of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who sits on a board of advisers to Tri Alpha. [read post]
28 May 2016, 10:56 am by Tom Smith
Add one more animal to the list of species thought to grieve their dead: wild snub-nosed monkeys. [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 10:56 pm by Tom Smith
For dog lovers, comparative psychologists Friederike Range and Zsófia Virányi have an unsettling conclusion. [read post]
18 Apr 2015, 9:11 am by Tom Smith
The origins of Europeans have come into sharp focus in the past year as researchers have sequenced the genomes of ancient populations, rather than only a few individuals. [read post]
19 Nov 2015, 9:40 am by Tom Smith
"If this is correct it's probably the theoretical computer science result of the decade," says Scott Aaronson, a computer scientist and blogger at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. [read post]
25 Oct 2015, 2:57 pm by Tom Smith
Back in the 1950s in a weird, vampiric experiment, scientists first showed that connecting the circulatory systems of old and young mice seems to rejuvenate the more elderly animals. [read post]
24 Feb 2015, 8:34 am by Tom Smith
Every so often, the fossil record shows, ecological disasters wipe large numbers of species off the face of Earth. [read post]
21 May 2021, 6:11 pm by Tom Smith
Eight children hospitalized with pneumonia in Malaysia several years ago had evidence of infections with a novel coronavirus similar to one found in dogs, a research team reports today. [read post]