A completely new order of marine sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The sponge order, named Vilesida, produces substances that could be used in drug ...

The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily slip on an icy sidewalk is that the surface of ice is ...

Thomas Smeenk, BA, unveils a proposed conformal invariant, A = E/(hv), explored as a potential bridge between General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, cosmology, and string theory.

Your relationship struggles may trace back to lessons you never received from a mother who didn't have the words herself.

New research published in Neuropsychologia provides evidence that adults with dyslexia process visual information differently ...

Although the science is unsettled, the White House has embraced core tenets of the ‘sperm count decline hypothesis.’ ...

From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...

Over the past century, most cancer research has focused on the tumor itself. Rakesh Jain focused on the tumor's environment ...

Dragline silk or major ampullate (MA) silk, the part of a spider's web that forms the main frame and spokes, is one of the ...

Is an interstellar comet actually an alien spaceship? A researcher traces how influencers spread such speculation via social ...

Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This ...

A forgotten Guinness brewer's alternative approach could have prevented 100 years of mistakes in medicine, economics, and ...