It has been thought that young fish, lacking well-developed hearing organs, could not perceive the sounds made by their larger, older relatives. Now, researchers have used a combined fish tank and sound-proof chamber to show for the first time that …
Caltech biologist David Anderson and his colleagues identify a brain chemical involved in promoting aggression in fliesRecently, biologist David Anderson set out to learn whether flies, like bees, can get angry–part of a broader effort to study how an…
Image Caption: NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Olga at 11:29 p.m. EST Jan. 28 and the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-E (AMSR-E) instrument measured the winds on Olga’s eastern side to be around 34 mph or 30 knots (in red), just before she str…
The colors of dinosaurs have long been a mystery, since soft parts aren’t preserved in the fossil record. But for the first time, scientists have teased out colors from fossilized feathers to reveal the orange-and-white ringed tail of a 125-million-…
For the first time, researchers have developed a transistor that can mimic the main functionalities of a synapse. This organic transistor, based on pentacene and gold nanoparticles and known as a NOMFET (Nanoparticle Organic Memory Field-Effect Tran…
A deadly fish virus that was first discovered in the Northeast in 2005 has been found for the first time in fish from Lake Superior, report researchers. That means that the virus has now been documented in all of the Great Lakes.
Leukemia cells, like most cancers, are addicted to glucose to generate their energy, but new research shows for the first time that these cells also rely on fatty acid metabolism to grow and to evade cell death.
A first-time overview of the population trends for honey bee colonies and beekeepers in EuropeThe number of bee colonies in Central Europe has decreased over recent decades. In fact, the number of beekeepers has been declining in the whole of Europe si…
Scientists have for the first time confirmed colour in a dinosaur. The first solid proof of pigmentation has been spotted in the fossilized tail feathers of a smallish meat-eating dinosaur found in China and named Sinosauropteryx.
Researchers say a fatal fish virus has been found in Lake Superior for the first time, meaning it has spread to all the Great Lakes.