Phytosaur: still got it. Credit: BFS Man, CC BY By Stephanie Drumheller, University of Tennessee; Michelle Stocker, Virginia Tech, and Sterling Nesbitt, Virginia Tech Some 220 million years ago, the…

Oh no – not that mistake again. Credit: Flickr/Alex Proimos, CC BY-NC By Will J Grant, Australian National University and Rod Lamberts, Australian National University UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH: What do…

Heart racing and fists shaking, I stood ready to fight. I was moments away from sparring with the top student in my karate class in Japan: a fast, coordinated monster who had defeated all…

An international team of astrophysicists has identified the most metal-poor stars in the Milky Way bulge. They present their findings in a paper published on Oct. 2. The scientists…

Like a plant that needs the right environment for it to grow healthy and bear fruits, FIER is believed to be more of use in a world that shares its supporting principles and theories.  That is…

Call it cathartic but one modern way people in a bad mood feel better is to go on social media like Facebook and find friends doing even worse. A new paper says that generally people use social…

A new study has found that lungs become more inflammatory with age and that ibuprofen can lower that inflammation - and the difference can be dramatic. Immune cells from old mouse lungs, after lung…

A few years ago, Susan Greenfield said something zany, even for Susan Greenfield: that the rise in autism diagnoses were related to the Internet. As Robery Olley once noted, she is the scholar who in…

The idea of evolutionary imbalance when it comes to invasive species is not new, Charles Darwin articulated it.  The concept is that species from regions with deep and diverse evolutionary…

Researchers recently used audio and video recording tools to record larval orientation behavior in the pelagic environment.  In their field experiment, the scientists put the recording…

Fibromyalgia is a symptom-based disorder that manifests itself as chronic pain. Its underlying causes are unknown. The results of a new study compares brain activity in individuals with and without…

Going, going, gone: wildlife like the loris are disappearing. Credit: N. A. Naseer, CC BY-NC-ND By Paul Jepson, University of Oxford Full marks to colleagues at the World Wildlife Fund and the…

Some sharks are more 'gregarious' than others and have strong social connections while others are solitary and prefer to remain inconspicuous. That's not an exception, according to a new study, these…

We are stardust - scientists and citizen scientists alike Physics Today's Ashley Smart describes a huge recent win for citizen science: some 30,000 volunteers pored over millions of microscopic…

Today and tomorrow I am attending a workshop in Padova titled as per the title above (but it is in Italian). If you know the language and are interested in the topic, there is available live…

Abortion and teen pregnancy dropped among teens who received free contraception and were educated about the pros and cons of various birth control methods, according to a new study in the New England…

Polish astronomers from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) have discovered a young stellar bridge, that forms a continuous connection between the Magellanic Clouds. This…

Giving publishing power to the people. Credit: Thinglass/Shutterstock By Gillian Rudd, University of Liverpool A novel written in an invented “shadow tongue” to give the feel of Early Middle English…

The need for caution when any anomaly is revealed in new research. Credit: Flickr/Adam Gerard, CC BY-NC-SA By Michael J. I. Brown, Monash University UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH: What do we actually mean…

Ice sheets were never simple. There is no magic knob that could be turned to optimize melting rates and movement, outside environmental press releases. A new paper in Nature this week shows that not…