Category: Technology
Looking to cut calories? Try adding chilies, study...
Throwing a little heat on your meal might be an effective strategy for cutting back on calories, according to a new study.
Infrared contact lenses allow people to see in the...
Neuroscientists and materials scientists have created contact lenses that enable infrared vision in both humans and mice by conver...
Shrinking Nemo: Clownfish survive heatwaves by shr...
Clownfish have been shown to shrink in order to survive heat stress and avoid social conflict, research reveals.
Could AI understand emotions better than we do?
Is artificial intelligence (AI) capable of suggesting appropriate behavior in emotionally charged situations? A team put six gener...
Tapping into the World's largest gold reserves
Earth's largest gold reserves are not kept inside Fort Knox, the United States Bullion Depository. In fact, they are hidden much d...
'Selfish' genes called introners proven to be a ma...
A new study proves that a type of genetic element called 'introners' are the mechanism by which many introns spread within and bet...
Climate change poses severe threat to bowhead whal...
New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to climate c...
ALMA measures evolution of monster barred spiral g...
Astronomers have observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral galaxy in the early Universe and found that it has importan...
Saturn's moon: Mysterious wobbling atmosphere like...
The puzzling behavior of Titan's atmosphere has been revealed. The team has shown that the thick, hazy atmosphere of Saturn's larg...
Researchers make breakthrough in semiconductor tec...
Self-driving cars which eliminate traffic jams, getting a healthcare diagnosis instantly without leaving your home, or feeling the...
New ketamine study promises extended relief for de...
For the nearly 30 percent of major depressive disorder patients who are resistant to treatment, ketamine provides some amount of n...
Scientists have figured out how extinct giant grou...
Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why ...
A new approach could fractionate crude oil using m...
Engineers developed a membrane that filters the components of crude oil by their molecular size, an advance that could dramaticall...
Invisible currents at the edge: Research team show...
If you've ever watched a flock of birds move in perfect unison or seen ripples travel across a pond, you've witnessed nature's rem...
Experimental painkiller could outsmart opioids -- ...
A study shows a non-opioid pain reliever blocks pain at its source -- calming specific nerve signals that send pain messages to th...
Could nanoplastics in the environment turn E. coli...
Nanoplastics are everywhere. These fragments are so tiny they can accumulate on bacteria and be taken up by plant roots; they're i...
Capuchin monkeys develop bizarre 'fad' of abductin...
Animal abduction: Biologists documented five male capuchin monkeys carrying at least eleven different infant howler monkeys -- a b...
Mice use chemical cues such as odors to sense soci...
Researchers have shown that mice use chemical cues, including odors, to detect the social rank of an unfamiliar mouse and compare ...
Glaciers will take centuries to recover even if gl...
New research reveals mountain glaciers across the globe will not recover for centuries -- even if human intervention cools the pla...
How to swim without a brain
A team was able to show that swimming movements are possible even without a central control unit. This not only explains the behav...
