Research into cooking the perfect pasta sauce, another probing the types of pizza lizards…
Malaria-carrying mosquitoes are evading efforts to control them in growing numbers.
But this…
A federal vaccine advisory committee made of members hand-picked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recommended in an 8-3 vote on Thursday that the combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (MMRV) vaccine should not…
A student has discovered what is thought may be a rare carving of a Pict’s face while…
Trapped in the enamel of fossilized dinosaur teeth is a fascinating glimpse into the Earth’s atmospheric past stretching back 150 million years. A recent study shows that carbon dioxide levels back then were far higher than today, thanks to the…
Most spiders are known for being loners that keep to themselves. But in rare instances, some close-knit spider communities rely on strength in numbers. From a young age, the spiders in these groups show selfless behaviors such as joining forces…
When the economy starts to wobble, economists pore over the big dashboards: GDP growth, unemployment rates, inflation. But sometimes, the first red flags come from somewhere stranger.
In his Monday Morning Economist blog, Virginia Tech economist…
Fins, fingers, and toes. Though they might seem similar, it turns out that they aren’t as connected as sometimes suggested.
In fact, a new study in Nature has taken a closer look at how human hands and feet evolved, and has found that their…
In January 2009, a research team sailed from South America toward Antarctica. They hoped to document how killer whales, also known as orcas, worked together to create a wave that could knock a seal from the safety of an ice floe.
The team observed…
Are those teeth on your forehead or are you just happy to see me? In the curious case of chimaeras, also called ghost sharks, the answer is ‘both.’
These forehead-teeth are attached to a retractable stalk called a tenaculum, and they help…