science

A research team led by a Brown University professor has shed new light on the evolutionary history of bilateral organisms. In a study published last week, the team, led by Assistant Professor of Biology Casey Dunn, used a San Diego supercomputer and new DNA sequencing techniques to establish Acoelomorpha flatworms …

At last, the diversity of ocean life has been exhaustively (and expensively) cataloged — or has it? The results of a decade-long, first-of-its-kind accounting of the world’s oceans were published Monday, revealing the remarkable diversity of life in the world’s waters. But scientists say there’s much more we don’t know …

America and Europe have come together with one motto in mind — Mars or Bust: 2016. On the deep space road trip, the latest collaboration between the European Space Administration (ESA) and NASA, the space agencies will send an orbiter and a descent and landing module to brave the red …

Searchlight, Nevada – Nevada is largely desert, yet a unique new building floats on water there — and it’s raising eyebrows. It’s built of rice hulls, Styrofoam, and recycled tires, and it’s still as solid as any other structure — well, any structure that’s literally floating in the middle of …