Scientists reveal the face of Hallucigenia, including a ring of teeth and two simple eyes, in one of the oldest multi-cellular creatures known.
New study may explain how people are able to quickly determine if there is an animal in their visual field.
Kim Jung-un claims that his country’s magical gingseng extract can cure AIDS, MERS, Ebola and other viral infections. Strangely, the scientific community is not intrigued.
A new study shows that it is easy to fool a brain-based lie detector.
In these cloud forests live a genus of tiny frogs known as Brachycephalus. Previously 21 species of Brachycephalus were identified, but a recent 5 year expedition has uncovered 7 new species, raising the total to 28.
This technology is not yet ready for prime time, but it is intriguing – scientists from Binghamton University did a proof-of-concept study using brainwaves to identify individuals, a neural password.
A team led by palaeoanthropologist Yohannes Haille-Selassie reported recently in Nature the discovery of a possible new early human, Australopithecus deyiremeda.
A new study uses climate data to explore how and when the plague was introduced into Europe, but it neither exonerates the black rat as a major spreader of the disease, nor does it implicate the gerbil.
A paleontologist discovers a new species of Ichthyosaurus forgotten in a museum collection.
According to a new computer model, all the geophysical features of Mars can be explained if early Mars were struck in the southern hemisphere by a massive body.