Having the biggest playlist doesn't make a male songbird the brainiest of the bunch, a new study shows.

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 21, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1 |

A new study conducted at the University of Bristol and published online today in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology sheds light on how the brain and inner ear developed in dinosaurs.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

May 20, 2013 5 / 5 (6) 0 |

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from the University of California has found that one part of the brain in rats responds differently to virtual reality than to the real world. In their paper published in ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

May 03, 2013 5 / 5 (7) 0 |

(Phys.org) —Researchers at The University of Queensland have discovered that, like humans, flies sleep in stages of different intensities.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 19, 2013 not rated yet 0

Some millennia ago, Yes might have been the object of worship in ancient Egypt. Today, Yes – a modern, domestic house cat – is helping shed light on the practice of mummification and the lives of ancients, ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Feb 01, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Eighty billion metric tons is an unfathomable amount to the human brain. Yet that number is the estimation of the global amount of sediment eroded on a yearly basis over the continental surface of the earth. ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Dec 10, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Germany's leading research institute opened the doors to its first U.S. center Wednesday, bolstered by hope its world-class science could bring cures for neurological diseases and invigorate the economy.

Other Sciences - Other

Dec 05, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—One of the challenges of understanding the complex behavior of animals is to relate the behavior to the complex processes occurring within the brain. So far, neural models have not been able ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Nov 30, 2012 4.3 / 5 (18) 15 |

(Phys.org)—Dr Gillian Forrester, a visiting fellow in psychology at the University of Sussex and a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Westminster, analysed hand actions directed towards ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 09, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 2 |

Choosing a mate is one of the most important decisions an individual of any species will make in its life. It is therefore perhaps a surprise that a new study, of which I'm a co-author, has revealed a bird ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 04, 2012 not rated yet 1 |

Mysterious creatures that thrive in the dark, bats have long been associated with witchcraft, vampires, and black magic. But according to Dr. Yossi Yovel of Tel Aviv University's Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University, ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 09, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

The human brain is not very well-equipped for analysing multidimensional data. In his doctoral dissertation, Mikko Berg, M.Sc. (Tech.) examined how graphical visualizations can help people to understand complex data. One ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

May 11, 2012 3 / 5 (1) 0

In Alzheimer's disease, brain neurons become clogged with tangled proteins. Scientists suspect these tangles arise partly due to malfunctions in a little-known regulatory system within cells. Now, researchers have dramatically ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Apr 16, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 1 |

A University of Alberta research team has discovered that technology commonly used to decontaminate food industry equipment can also rid meat processing plants of lethal microbial material responsible for the human version ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Mar 02, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 1

Researchers from The University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Feb 27, 2012 4.8 / 5 (38) 22 |