This shows an embryo around 11 weeks of gestation, acquired via 3D transvaginal ultrasound examination. The researchers thank ...

Above left, Oscar Cavazos (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO) joins other marine techs in preparing a new sediment core ...

Glaciologist Hajo Eicken has officially taken over as Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute. He returns to Bremerhaven ...

A dancing honey bee (center) is surrounded by an audience of “followers” that carefully interpret the movements of the ...

A cross-section of snowpack reveals a thin, darker ice layer running horizontally through the snow. Ice layers like this one form when rain falls onto snow and freezes, forming a crust. This creates a ...

This map shows the change in number of “ice crust days” across the 53 monitoring sites during the simulated winter with 2 C warming. The Cascade sites overwhelmingly saw fewer theoretical ice crust ...

MRI scans of human (left) and mouse (right) brains revealed patterns of connectivity (circles) that change with age.

When honey bee foragers locate a food source, such as this lemonade berry sumac shrub (Rhus integrifolia), they return to the hive and communicate the source through the intricate details of the ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) has more than doubled in recorded prevalence in England from 2000 to 2020, increasing by 6% per year, largely due to improved diagnosis and longer life expectancy, finds a new ...

New research from the University of St Andrews reports sperm whales headbutting  one another. The behaviour was captured on ...

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

Plants must extract water from the soil through their roots – overcoming the resistance of the capillary forces that retain the water in the soil. Model calculations indicate these capillary ...