Earth Science
Neanderthal-like features in 450,000-year-old fossil teeth from the Italian Peninsula
Credit: Zanolli et al., 2018 Fossil teeth from Italy, among the oldest human remains on the Italian Peninsula, show that...
Teeth of Homo antecessor shed light on trends in Pleistocene hominin dental evolution
Credit: Martín-Francés et al., 2018 Some of the dental features characteristic of Neanderthals were already present in Early Pleistocene Homo...
Evolution: Genetics doesn’t matter much in forming society
Credit: Photo taken by Norihiro Yagi Genetics isn't as important as once thought for the evolution of altruistic social behavior...
Couples showing off: Songbirds are more passionate in front of an audience
Credit: Ota N., et al., Science Advances, October 3, 2018 Both sexes of a songbird called the blue-capped cordon-bleu intensify...
NASA’s Aqua satellite shows Rosa’s remnants soaking Arizona
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA provided an infrared view of Tropical Depression Rosa's remnants that showed strongest storms with heaviest rainfall...
NASA soaks up Tropical Storm Leslie’s water vapor concentration
Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Central Atlantic Ocean on Oct. 2 the MODIS instrument aboard...
NASA sees a lot of strength in infrared view of cat four Hurricane Walaka
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared satellite imagery provides temperature data, and when NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Central Pacific Ocean,...
NASA sees a lot of strength in infrared view of cat four Hurricane Walaka
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared satellite imagery provides temperature data, and when NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Central Pacific Ocean,...
NASA sees a lot of strength in infrared view of cat four Hurricane Walaka
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared satellite imagery provides temperature data, and when NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Central Pacific Ocean,...
NASA sees a lot of strength in infrared view of cat four Hurricane Walaka
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared satellite imagery provides temperature data, and when NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Central Pacific Ocean,...
NASA sees a lot of strength in infrared view of cat four Hurricane Walaka
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared satellite imagery provides temperature data, and when NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Central Pacific Ocean,...
Giraffe babies inherit spot patterns from their mothers
Credit: Derek Lee, Wild Nature Institute/Penn State Some features of a giraffe's spot pattern are passed on from mother to...
Excellence strategy: KIT is successful with two clusters of excellence
Credit: Markus Breig, KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has successfully acquired funding for two clusters of excellence within the...
A top-notch chemist
Each year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants about 20 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Awards to honour scientists and scholars...
Supersizing solar cells: researchers print module six times bigger than previous largest
A perovskite solar module the size of an A4 sheet of paper, which is nearly six times bigger than 10x10...
The first drywood termite known to use snapping stick-like mandibles to defend its colony
Credit: Rudolf Scheffrahn Tasked to defend the colony from attackers, the specialised soldier caste in some termite species has evolved...
Revealed: a central signal sorting hub in plants
Credit: Vinod Kumar - John Innes Centre Plants growing in the wild constantly sense and respond to a multitude of...
Scientists propose that vibrios have significant roles in marine organic carbon cycle
Credit: ©Science China Press The genus Vibrio is one of the best model marine heterotrophic bacterial groups, and many Vibrio...
Set in amber, fossil ants help reconstruct evolution of fungus farming
Credit: Alex Wild MADISON - Some 50 million years before humans figured it out, agriculture arrived in the world in...
How Sacred Ibis mummies provided the first test of evolution
Credit: Christiaan Kooyman, Wikimedia A debate over mummified birds brought to France after Napoleon's conquest of Egypt played a central...