Dorsal fins, initially appearing on aircraft in the mid-1930s in various designs, were often anecdotally or mistakenly thought to primarily enhance directional stability. The true aerodynamic function ...

The spinal dorsal horn is innervated by primary afferent fibres and contains a large number of excitatory (glutamatergic) and inhibitory (GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid)-ergic or glycinergic) interneurons, ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

A neuroimaging study of individuals spanning the Alzheimer’s disease spectrum found that the attenuated anticorrelation ...

In October 2014, Professor Peter J. Mumby of the Marine Spatial Ecology Lab in the University of Queensland came across an adult female grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) that was missing ...

China continues its work with high profile aircraft designs, as the so-called J-36 “sixth-generation” fighter continues to mount sorties in the skies above Chengdu. The jet first appeared on 26 ...

An area of the brain that could control a person’s motivation to exercise and participate in other rewarding activities -– potentially leading to improved treatments for depression -- has been ...

Belugas are also called white whales, and their unusual color makes them one of the most familiar and easily distinguishable of all the whales. Calves are born gray or even brown and only fade to ...