A completely new order of marine sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The ...

"We think we can make something better or find out what is going on in this interesting area if we try a bunch of things and apply several sophisticated techniques to study this." These proposals are ...

Scientists at the University of British Columbia Okanagan say they’ve found a mathematical limit that shuts down the ...

Researchers design studies that might disprove what’s called their null hypothesis – the opposite of the claim they’re ...

Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 120,000 years ago, ...

It's the initial building block in the scientific method. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A scientific hypothesis is a tentative, ...

Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...

Much of running a small business is a gamble, buoyed by boldness, intuition and guts. But wise business leaders also conduct formal and informal research to inform their business decisions. Good ...

Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. A few of us, however, are more like the orchid: fragile and fickle, but capable of blooming ...

A new study from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus challenges a decades-old hypothesis on adaptation, a key feature in how sensory cells of the inner ear (hair cells) detect sound.