Brain Is Not The Mind

If you want to hear rare Chinese frogs croak, speaking the language won’t necessarily help. These frogs can make high-pitched sounds out of human hearing range. Biologists at the University of Illinois have found a particular frog species that has the …

Information gleaned from teeth excavated from a Mexican graveyard suggests Europeans brought African slaves to the New World much earlier than history books tell us. By measuring the amount of strontium in the teeth and comparing it with strontium valu…

Hackers beware! There’s a new cyber universe out there–a small scale version of the Internet. It acts like the real thing, but it’s not a playground for hackers. It’s a test bed for software makers and security providers to find solutions that will th…

Bloodhounds, take notice! Thanks to researchers at Purdue University, law enforcement officers and forensic pathologists may soon have a new working tool to sniff out trouble–a device they can take to the scene for instant identification. Today’s mass…

In nature, putting the other guy first seems contradictory to an animal’s goals of survival and passing on its genes, so researchers have been trying to understand why the blue side-blotched lizard will step forward to battle an intruding aggressor, ev…

Researchers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois have put their high-powered supercomputers to work to complete the first simulation of a life form all the way down to its individual atoms, leading the wa…

Far above the Arctic Circle, paleontologists have discovered a new fossil species that bridges the evolutionary gap between land and sea animals–an animal that is both fish and tetrapod. The skeleton indicates that the animal could support its body …