Illustration of light patterns on black void background. (Image credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi/wikipedia) Imagine waking up one ...

A common whiff in the Roman city would have come from the animals and the waste they created. Roman bakeries frequently used ...

A chimpanzee named Juma turned out to be quite the trendsetter. He picked up a blade of grass and stuck it in his ear, a ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...

The OTOF gene encodes otoferlin, a protein that plays a critical role in hearing. It helps transmit sound signals from the ...

The drug is Ambroxol. It’s been used for decades to treat respiratory ailments by thinning mucus and easing coughs. But now, ...

In a new study, participants from China, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom consistently rated men with low-to-moderate body ...

Poveglia is a layered time capsule of tragedy. It was once a bustling community which was turned into a quarantine zone, then into a psychiatric hospital, then fell into ruin. And while it’s often ...

One answer lies in something Casasanto and his team call “left-handed exceptionalism.” Lefties make up just about 10% of the ...

With lessons learned from their first attempt, Kyoto University scientists hope a second CubeSat made of magnolia will spark ...

Over the last fifty years, jet fuel has accounted for more than half of all U.S. military energy use. Scaling back the ...

Sorghum is all the more exciting as a crop. It isn’t just print-friendly, it’s planet-friendly. This grain grows in hot, dry ...