For The Better

Spontaneous, random baby movements aid development of their sensorimotor system, according to new research. Detailed motion capture of newborns and infants was combined with a musculoskeletal computer model, to enable researchers to analyze communicati…

A new study that reconstructs the history of sea level at the Bering Strait shows that the Bering Land Bridge connecting Asia to North America did not emerge until around 35,700 years ago, less than 10,000 years before the height of the last ice age (k…

Females, on average, are better than males at putting themselves in others’ shoes and imagining what the other person is thinking or feeling, suggests a new study of over 300,000 people in 57 countries.

Researchers uncover the long-hidden process that helps explain why the Sun’s corona can be vastly hotter than the solar surface that emits it.

How plants optimize photosynthesis under changing light conditions.

While most germinal centers shut down after a few weeks, some stay in business for more than six months. A new study helps explain why.

Researchers have identified key neurons that regulate body temperature at 37°C in mammals. This finding could pave the way for developing a technology that artificially adjusts body temperature to help treat heat stroke, hypothermia, and even obesity.

Archaeologists have uncovered projectile points in Idaho that are thousands of years older than any previously found in the Americas, helping to fill in the history of how early humans crafted and used stone weapons.

Marvel at the tiny nanoscale structures emerging from labs, and it’s easy to imagine you’re browsing a catalog of the world’s smallest pottery: itty-bitty vases, bowls, and spheres. But instead of making them from clay, the researchers designed these o…

Researchers report that they have developed a new experimental pipeline to combine bacterial therapy with current cancer drugs. Their study, which explores resistance to bacterial therapy at the molecular level, has achieved better treatment efficacy w…

A remote fear memory is a memory of traumatic events that occurred in the distant past — a few months to decades ago. A mouse study has now spelled out the fundamental mechanisms by which the brain consolidates remote fear memories. The study demonstr…

New research suggests that a portion of the Danish population has a composition of gut microbes that, on average, extracts more energy from food than do the microbes in the guts of their fellow Danes. The research is a step towards understanding why so…