Five hundred million years ago, spineless chordates slunk through Earth’s Cambrian oceans. These unassuming creatures would eventually give rise to more complex vertebrates such as fish, dinosaurs and even us, so they are crucial evidence for scient…
Inuit people must adapt to environmental changes coming to the Arctic, which will put their way at life at risk, concludes a new study from a group of Canadian reseachers.
Mission managers for the Mars Exploration Rover program announced this week that the Spirit rover will likely never rove again on Mars. But that doesn't mean her life is over. However, with the rover virtually immobile and stuck in a sand tra…
Despite the almost universal association of the right with life, right, positive and good things, and the left with death, inadequacy, negative and bad things, recent researches show that left-handed people hold the opposite association.
• Waistband altitude a metaphor for life, declares Debenhams• Low-slung teen fad switches to armpit huggers by fifth decadeMiddle age, it oft is said, is when your age starts to show around your middle. And for men, it seems, the moment is marked by the inexorable rise in the position of their trouser waistband.A survey [...]
NASA is giving up trying to get its stuck Mars rover moving again, though it hopes Spirit will have a new life as a stationary science probe — if it survives winter. The rover, which landed on Mars six years …
Computer scientists in the UK have developed a new way of making life-like animations of trees using video footage of the real thing.
If aliens do exist in the Goldilocks zones of outer space, I’m not convinced we’ll recognise themFor 21st-century renaissance science, look no further than the stars. Closer to home, the Royal Society, as part of its 350th anniversary celebrations, this week brought together some dizzying intellects to ponder the emergent field of astrobiology, and ask: [...]
Blood pressure control in infants of smoking mothers is abnormal compared to that of infants from non-smoking parents. The blood pressure response to postural changes — tilting and changing from upright to lying down — was opposite in babies of sm…
In a newly published clinical trial, patients with metastatic prostate cancer who received a vaccine of harmless poxviruses engineered to spur an immune system attack on prostate tumor cells lived substantially longer than patients who received a pl…