Whales, seals and walruses stay warm in chilly water because they have a thick layer of blubber. We humans rely on something like blubberneoprene rubb...
As in many other fields, gender bias pervades the sciences. Men score higher starting salaries, have more mentoring, and have better odds of being hir...
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for his discoveries of mechanisms of whats known as autophagy. Break ...
This years Nobel Prize in Chemistry is about the worlds smallest machines. G?ran Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, ...
Its called the Great Migrationthe journey of some six million African-Americans from the rural south to northern and western cities between 1910 and 1...
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics with one half to David J. Thouless and the other half to F....
The Greenland High Arctic is a bare, sparse place. Rather than tall trees, it has tundraground hugging vegetationand rugged, Lord-of-the-Rings-style v...
Forget cockroaches. Forget Superman. Forget any other tough-as-nails creatures youve ever heard of. The most indestructible multicellular organisms on...
