A biotech company that is working toward the Jurassic Park-style cloning of woolly mammoths has announced that they have made a crucial breakthrough in producing elephant stem cells, a key step in recreating the furry pachyderms, a species that has been extinct for over four thousand years. According to a statementread more
A team of researchers with Cambridge University has determined that the common cuttlefish has the cognitive ability to postpone the instant satisfaction that can come from an immediate reward if it holds out for a more attractive prize that is made available later, through a test originally designed to studyread more
Researchers that are making efforts to clarify the data being collected on Antarctic sea ice by satellites using ground-based instruments are reporting that the extent of ice surrounding our southernmost continent has shrunk to a record low, nearly one million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) less than when record keepingread more
Two pieces of preserved wood have been discovered at an archaeological site in Zambia that indicate that ancient humans had developed woodworking techniques to build structures nearly a half-million years ago, extending our use of this near-universal building technology to a point before modern humans even emerged. Made from theread more