About 800 years ago, a ship sank in the Java Sea. There are no written records saying where the ship was going or where it came from — the only clues are the mostly-disintegrated structure of the ves..

New research by neuroscientists shows that as neurons process information about texture from the skin, they each respond differently to various features of a surface, creating a high-dimensional repre..

Researchers have developed a framework that explains how bees use environmental signals to collectively cluster and continuously ventilate the hive.

Researchers found that higher sodium intake, when studied in the context of the DASH-Sodium trial (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension), increases lightheadedness. These findings challenge traditi..

Social and personality psychologists will present their latest findings on how people engage in casual conversations, and what this means for our own performance anxiety.

Under the influence of the drug fluconazole, the fungus Candida albicans can change its mode of reproduction and thus become even more resistant, scientists report.

Genomics fails to diagnose up to half of patients who are tested. Using a new neutrophil proteome database, researchers made genetic diagnoses for children with severe congenital neutropenia whom typi..

The so-called Abelian sandpile model has been studied by scientists for more than 30 years. Even though the sandpile model serves as the archetypical model to study self-organized criticality, questio..

Researchers have used detailed surface temperature analyses to develop the first-ever objective definition of the Northeast Indian Monsoon.

Scientists present data from the region that show the Australian-Antarctic Ridge has isotopic compositions distinct from both the Pacific and Indian mantle domains.