Category: 1. Edi-Choice

A satellite that generates artificial solar eclipses in space has reestablished contact with its handlers after a month of silence.

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced today (March 19) that it has gotten back in touch with the Coronagraph…

Most of Europe’s original natural forests have been transformed for agriculture and managed forests producing energy, paper and timber. The few remaining “old-growth” natural forests are relics of the past that illustrate how forests…

For more than a century, condensed matter physics has grappled with one of its greatest unsolved challenges: how to build superconductors that operate at room temperature and transmit electricity with no loss.

Now, in a paper recently…

What animal are you? Humans and animals tend to like the same mating calls

A set of 13,000-year-old footprints discovered on Calvert Island is offering rare, direct evidence of human activity along North America’s Pacific coast. Preserved in shoreline sediment, the tracks point to a small group moving together at…

Animals do all sorts of things to attract each other as potential mates. Many birds, for example, produce feathers with elaborate color patterns – from the iridescent plumage of many hummingbirds to the famously brilliant tail of a…

It’s been known for some time that psychological stress can make eczema (atopic dermatitis) worse, but it hasn’t been clear how or why. Now, a new study may have uncovered the specific nerve pathway responsible for the link.

Using mouse models…

The Americas have been home to humans for tens of thousands of years, with the first people arriving during the last ice age, when woolly mammoths, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats roamed the land.

These Indigenous Americans left behind clues…

What counts as an addiction — should compulsive shopping or gaming qualify?

Researchers are currently debating whether to classify problematic behaviors as addictions in the next edition of psychiatry’s “bible” of mental health disorders. The…

A team of archaeologists is questioning the 14,500-year-old date of Monte Verde in Chile, one of the oldest human occupations in the Americas, and proposing a much younger age for the key Paleo-Indian site. The researchers suggest their new…