Research: Can gut infection trigger Parkinson’s disease? —

A new study by Montreal scientists published today in Nature demonstrates that a gut infection can lead to a pathology resembling Parkinson's disease...

Research: By keeping the brain in sync, these long-hypothesized but never-found neurons help rodents...

By measuring the fast electrical spikes of individual neurons in the touch region of the brain, Brown University neuroscientists have discovered a new...

Research: Research corrects decades of data and suggests that ocean warming occurred in a...

Something odd happened in the oceans in the early 20th century. The North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific appeared to warm twice as much...

Research: Out of Africa and into an archaic human melting pot —

Genetic analysis has revealed that the ancestors of modern humans interbred with at least five different archaic human groups as they moved out...

Research: Australian research finds little lizards learn very quickly —

Young Australian eastern blue-tongue lizards (Tiliqua scincoides) are every bit as clever as adults, researchers have found. Life is hard for baby blue-tongues. As...

Research: Australian ants prepared for ‘Insect Armageddon’ —

La Trobe University researchers have uncovered an exception to the global phenomenon known as 'Insect Armageddon' in the largest study of Australian insect...

Research: By cutting ozone pollution now, China could save 330,000 lives by 2050 —

If China takes strong measures to reduce its ozone pollution now, it could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the long run,...

Research: Small horned dinosaur from China, a Triceratops relative, walked on two feet —

Many dinosaur species are known from scant remains, with some estimates suggesting 75% are known from five or fewer individuals. Auroraceratops rugosus was...

Research: Aquilarhinus palimentus, or ‘shovel-chinned eagle nose’, is a new species of primitive hadrosaurid...

The most complete skull of a duck-billed dinosaur from Big Bend National Park, Texas, is revealed in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology as...

Research: Joshua trees facing extinction —

They outlived mammoths and saber-toothed tigers. But without dramatic action to reduce climate change, new research shows Joshua trees won't survive much past...

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