The first in-depth look at the human ability to decode the range of emotions tied to the acoustic cues of screams. People are adept at…
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Gray wolves take down a horse on the mammoth-steppe habitat of Beringia during the late Pleistocene (around 25,000 years ago). Credit: Julius Csotonyi Gray wolves…
Skulls of early Homo from Georgia with an ape-like brain (left) and from Indonesia with a human-like brain (right). Credit: M. Ponce de León and…
For the study, the researchers created a computer model of a classroom with students and a teacher, then modeled airflow and disease transmission, and calculated…
A new algorithm offers insights into consumer spending by identifying what someone purchased from only the bill total. At first, it seemed like the algorithm…
Not least because of the COVID-19 pandemic, conspiracy theories are more topical than ever. They are reported and discussed in almost all media and communication…
Credit: UCR Trilobites Had a Leg Up on Breathing A new study has found the first evidence of sophisticated breathing organs in 450-million-year-old sea creatures.…
Americans used 7 percent less energy in 2020 due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 energy flow chart released by Lawrence Livermore National…
This skull from Zlatý kůň cave near Prague belonged to the earliest known modern human in Europe. Credit: Marek Jantač The fossil skull of a…
Nacre, or mother-of-pearl, found in red abalone and other mollusks, is extremely fracture-resistant. That’s one reason researchers are interested in the natural material, and why…
Researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of stone age humans. In a paper published in the Yearbook of the American…
This diagram shows the steps Boston College and WPI researchers took to isolate and seed primary bovine satellite cells on a decellularized spinach leaf scaffold.…
Traditional Owner Ian Waina inspecting a Naturalistic painting of a kangaroo, determined to be more than 17,100 years old based on the age of overlying…
If COVID Spread to North American Bats, It Could Be Disastrous – Here Is the Current Risk Assessment
If COVID Spread to North American Bats, It Could Be Disastrous – Here Is the Current Risk Assessment
Insect-eating Brazilian free-tailed bats. Credit: Paul Cryan, USGS The risk is low that scientists could pass coronavirus to North American bats during winter research, according…
Are we really living in a polarized world? A mathematical model reveals surprises — particularly about people in the middle. When people talk about the…
Artist’s impression showing one eagle shark. Credit: © Oscar Sanisidro Introducing a “bizarre” shark from the Late Cretaceous that, more than 66 million years ago,…
The plant-eating pareiasaurs were preyed on by sabre-toothed gorgonopsians. Both groups died out during the end-Permian mass extinction, or “The Great Dying.” Credit: © Xiaochong…
Highway and wind turbines in Tamil Nadu, India. India has ambitious scale-up plans for renewable energy over the next decade. Credit: iStock Berkeley Lab-led team…
The archaeological site at a rock shelter in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert: More than 100,000 years ago, people used the so-called Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter…
The giant mihirung Dromornis stirtoni, by artist Peter Trusler. Credit: Peter Trusler The largest flightless bird ever to live weighed in up to 600kg and…