Highland deer mice and their lowland cousins ventured on a simulated seven-week ascent to 6,000 meters. By tracking how the mice responded to cold stress and progressively lower oxygen levels, the ...

Teams of mountaineering mice are helping advance understanding into how evolutionary adaptation to localized conditions can enable a single species to thrive across diverse environments.

When people have an audience watching them, it can change their performance for better or worse. Now, researchers have found that chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks is influenced by the number ...

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

All living things have a blueprint provided by the DNA that is stored in every one of their cells. Yet the amount of DNA in ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of Heleocola piceanus, a swamp-dwelling mammal that lived around 75 million years ago ...

The design remains the same, but you get a new processor and a more generous RAM offering without a price increase. Sadly, ...

These devices could serve as valuable tools for biomedical research and may have potential for clinical applications in the ...

Imagine a robot that can detect scents in the air and track down their sources as efficiently as a dog or a mouse. If realised, it could detect small wildfires in dense forests, find people buried in ...

"Never half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing," advises the great Ron Swanson. It's something this combination keyboard and touchpad could learn from.

The actress, 50, will read the much-loved modern classic The Gruffalo's Child by author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel ...