‘The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins’ offers window into cetacean societies
Dolphins and whales pass cultural knowledge to one another, the authors of a new book argue.
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Dolphins and whales pass cultural knowledge to one another, the authors of a new book argue.
The National Park Service mapped noise across the United States.
Bats get a clue to where dinner is by listening to peers attacking prey.
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Researchers are beginning to study ways to help adults with autism navigate independently, get jobs and find friendship.
Animals live in a world of sounds. Clever experiments are finally teasing out how human-made noise can cause dangerous distractions.
Over 19 years, geomagnetic fields changed slightly and so did loggerheads’ nesting sites.
The environment, especially microbes, shapes immune system reactions more than genes do.
Even in vacuum conditions, light can move slower than its maximum speed depending on the structure of its pulses.
Fish-hunting cone snails turns insulin into a weapon that drops their prey’s blood sugar and eases capture.
A newfound set of brain connections appears to control fear memories, a finding that may lead to a better understanding of PTSD and other anxiety disorders.
Pockets of iron and nickel in meteorites suggest that asteroids in the early solar system produced magnetic fields for much longer than once thought.
Aging influences the breakdown of the blood-brain barrier, which may contribute to learning and memory problems later in life.
Engineering E. coli to depend on human-made molecules may keep genetically modified bacteria from escaping into nature.
A rise in some bacteria-killing viruses in the intestines may deplete good bacteria and trigger inflammatory bowel diseases.
South African fossils contain inner signs of humanlike hands, indicating possible tool use nearly 3 million years ago.
Rosetta finds diverse landscapes on comet 67P, which could provide researchers with clues about how the solar system formed.
A high-speed camera snaps sharp details of how alkali metals explode in water — a classic, but until now, not fully explained chemical reaction.
Earliest snake fossils provide evidence snakes evolved their flexible skulls before their long, limbless bodies.
New find suggests humans mated with Neandertals in Middle East before taking on Europe.
Five rocky planets orbit the 11.2-billion-year-old star Kepler 444, suggesting that Earth-sized worlds formed in the early universe.
The claimed detection of primordial gravitational waves does not hold up after taking into account galactic dust, a new analysis concludes.
Rapidly spinning black holes can generate turbulence, a new analysis shows.
New discoveries peg ritual specialists as force behind bark-paper tomes and wall murals.
Carnivorous pitcher plant traps rarely catch much, but their lackadaisical hunting turns out not to be so lame after all.
Scientists’ share of total employment is lower in United States than in 16 other countries.
Scientists in 1965 measured buildup of radioactive carbon from nuclear bomb testing in people.
Steven Weinberg’s new book ‘To Explain the World’ illustrates the difficulty of the development of modern science.
Teens from 18 states will soon face off in the finals of the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search, the nation’s most prestigious science research competition for high school seniors.
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