Malin Stavridis at work, looking for reindeer to collect fresh reindeer droppings. Note the rifle on her backpack. It's required equipment, along with a flare gun, to scare away any polar bears that ...

The Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope (PoET) will collect sunlight and redirect it to ESO’s ESPRESSO instrument, which will obtain highly detailed spectra of both the entire Sun and specific regions ...

Researchers combined their expertise in materials science and and origami to create durable, programmable robot that moves without a motor. (The image’s speed is increased 40 times from the original.) ...

UAB researchers discover the mechanism by which neurofibrillary tangles spread through the brain of Alzheimer’s patients is ...

A comprehensive new cell atlas of the maternal-fetal interface finds new cell types that have implications for preterm birth, preeclampsia, miscarriage, and cannabis use in pregnancy. Researchers used ...

Scientists have demonstrated, for the first time, that several psychedelic drugs – including psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, DMT and ayahuasca – produce a common pattern of brain activity despite their ...

A large, long-term study led by Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators suggests that some medications commonly prescribed to treat irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)—including ...

The American Society of Hematology (ASH) and the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) released comprehensive clinical practice guidelines on anticoagulant prophylaxis in ...

Each winter, thousands of blacktip sharks crowd South Florida’s clear, shallow shoreline—just as beach nourishment projects churn the water into murky plumes. In one of the most detailed studies to ...

From seahorses to sharks, more than 3,000 fish species have been caught in bottom trawls, including many at risk of ...

UC San Diego engineers have developed a new chip design that could make data centers more energy efficient by improving a ...