Science & Technology

Scientists have discovered that symbiotic single-celled algae that live inside of and feed corals can reproduce not only by mitosis, but also sexually. Encouraging sex in these algae can accelerate their evolution to produce strains better able to help…

A surprising discovery may offer a promising new direction in the study of multiple sclerosis and other diseases of hypomyelination — when axons of neurons are not covered sufficiently in fatty sheaths (myelin), which disrupts communication between ne…

City planners predict that as more people move into urban areas, traffic jams will get worse. That’s why sustainability experts propose a new way to analyze traffic congestion. Using more precise measures to describe the shape of cities and considering…

Adults and children with migraines may get less quality, REM sleep time than people who don’t have migraines. That’s according to a meta-analysis. Children with migraines were also found to get less total sleep time than their healthy peers but took le…

Adults with neurologic conditions are more likely than the general population to have had adverse childhood experiences such as abuse, neglect or household dysfunction, according to a new study. The study does not prove that neurologic conditions are c…

Researchers have found a way to supercharge the formation of carbon dioxide-based crystal structures that could someday store billions of tons of carbon under the ocean floor for centuries, if not forever.

A new study from the Kalahari Desert finds that teamwork allows birds to cope with brutally unpredictable environments.

Shell beads found in a cave in Morocco are at least 142,000 years old. The archaeologists who found them say they’re the earliest known evidence of a widespread form of human communication.

There are many forms of dietary restriction and their health benefits are not ‘one size fits all.’ Researchers provide a framework for a new personalized sub-specialty: precision nutrigeroscience, based on biomarkers affected by genetics, gender, tissu…

Implementing advance wind energy scenarios could achieve a reduction in global warming atmospheric average temperatures of 0.3 to 0.8 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, according to new research.

Using oxygen stable isotope analysis of tooth enamel from animals butchered by humans at the site of Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, researchers show that human groups belonging to an early wave of dispersal of our species into Europe were faced with very c…

Researchers have found a way to mimic the natural processes that create complex shapes and landscapes with the help of a vibrating plate and resulting energy fields.

The continents, a specific feature of our planet, still hold many secrets. Using chemical data on sedimentary rocks compiled from the scientific literature from the 1980s to the present day, researchers have uncovered a new geological history of the co…

Has the scent of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies ever taken you back to afternoons at your grandmother’s house? Has an old song ever brought back memories of a first date? The ability to remember relationships between unrelated items (an odor and …