Michael Martin Author of the study from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Martin Rene Ellegaard Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul spent over 20 years as a science journalist, ...

Living with a small dog often means walking past a pile of blankets and not realizing the chihuahua, or Pomeranian, is burrowed deep within. After calling for the little one, the blanket might move ...

The study of life (paleontology and biology) and the study of artificial life (bioinspired robotics and paleo-inspired robotics) provide complementary knowledge about animal evolution. (Credit: ...

Eels are capable of lifting themselves out of the water to shock a target. In a 2017 article in Current Biology, a researcher willingly made himself the target of such a shocking leap. The larger the ...

Languages are a lot like living organisms. Both evolve over time, allowing an ancestral tongue like Latin to sire diverse descendants — Spanish, French, Romanian — that are more closely related to ...

Researchers analyzed the DNA of those bones that they could, but to discover who they were, they still needed to compare it to living relatives. In 2021, Stenton and Keenleyside had identified one of ...

Postdoctoral Associate with the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine. Kwondo Kim, Ph.D. Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life ...

The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize a cosmic cloud so colossal it surrounds the Sun and eight planets as it extends trillions of miles into deep space. The spherical shell known as ...

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Billions of years of evolution have made modern cells incredibly complex. Inside cells are small compartments called organelles that perform specific functions essential for the cell’s survival and ...

(Reuters) -Discover Financial's third-quarter profit jumped 43% as the U.S. credit card issuer's net interest income climbed and its provisions for potential sour loans fell, the company said on ...

Hitting 10,000 steps a day is a popular fitness goal for millions. But a less time-consuming alternative may be more effective when it comes to losing weight, if new research is to be believed.