For young animals depending on maternal care for survival, the loss of parents often leads to serious consequences and even death.
Nov 16, 2015
A new study on lazy eye found that programmable electronic glasses help improve vision in children just as well as the more traditional treatment using eye patches.
Nov 15, 2015
Researchers have found that the extinction of North America's megafauna, such as large mammal species including mammoths and saber toothed cats, dramatically changed how species interacted after the end of last ice age, the Pleistocene, some 11,000 years ago.
Nov 15, 2015
Scientists have identified two chemical scents in the urine of female mice that arouse sexual behavior in males, a discovery that shines a spotlight on how mouse pheromones control behavior.
Nov 11, 2015
Researchers have found more than half of the public datasets provided with scientific papers are incomplete, which prevents reproducibility tests and follow-up studies.
Nov 11, 2015
There are many ways to divvy up a pile of cookies. Among the possibilities: Everyone can get an equal number, or those who contributed more to the cookie baking can get a larger share.
Nov 10, 2015
Several years ago, University at Buffalo biologists noticed something odd. They were studying how a worm called C.
Nov 10, 2015
For more than 60 years, fusion scientists have tried to use "magnetic bottles" of various shapes and sizes to confine extremely hot plasmas, with the goal of producing practical fusion energy.
Nov 10, 2015
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered a new bat SARS-like virus that can jump directly from its bat hosts to humans without mutation.
Nov 10, 2015
What if a single vaccine could protect people from infection by many different viruses?
Nov 9, 2015
In a major scientific breakthrough, a drug used to treat Parkinson's and related diseases may be able to delay or prevent macular degeneration, the most common form of blindness among older Americans.
Nov 9, 2015
Stem cells from adult schizophrenia patients form new proteins more slowly than those from healthy people, according to new research.
Nov 9, 2015
High levels of vitamin C kill certain kinds of colorectal cancers in cell cultures and mice, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.
Nov 5, 2015
The situation is growing worse for fishers being poisoned by rodenticides on illegal marijuana grow sites in California, according to a study by a team of…
Nov 4, 2015
