Those familiar with the Lord of the Rings will remember the Huorns.  According to the Lord of the Rings Wiki: Mostly the Huorns stood as dark trees in the deepest forests, gnarled and…

"The most important task at hand is experimental. Based on our considerations of dynamical symmetry breaking through preons and the assumption of universal size for all quarks and leptons, we are led…

Where do new genes come from? It's a long standing debate in evolutionary biology but a new paper in Science Express says that new genes are created from non-coding DNA, and more rapidly than…

If you think wilding was much more civilized when you were young, well, you're old. Older people are more likely to regard the behavior of younger people as anti-social, even if it doesn't bother…

It was once commonly known than ancient Carthaginians sacrificed their children. The evidence was right there, in historical documents and graves. The city-state of ancient Carthage was a Phoenician…

A new paper has demonstrated the power of path tracking to measure social behavior and automatically determine dogs' personalities. How dogs behave during walks reveals a lot about traits such as…

Human induced-pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from human umbilical cord-blood are capable of repairing damaged retinal vascular tissue in mice, according to a new paper. The adult stem…

What would you do if you were on a borehole drilling expedition and tapped into 1,000 degree Celcius magma at slightly over a mile deep? Most people would run but the Icelandic Deep Drilling Project…

Researchers have sequenced the genome of the world's oldest continuously surviving cancer, a transmissible genital cancer which causes grotesque genital tumors in dogs around the world. It first…

I must say I feel proud of myself tonight. In Italy a unified procedure to rank candidates to the position of associate or full professor has been launched last year, and I of course participated to…