Catherine Griffin : Science World Report

May 10, 2014 10:02 AM EDT

NASA Chandra Observatory Reveals How Star Clusters Form with Spectacular Images

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has shed a bit of light on how star clusters are born.

May 10, 2014 09:44 AM EDT

Music Impacts Our Brains: Blood Flow Increases After Musical Training

Scientists have discovered that training can increase the blood flow in the left hemisphere of our brain, which suggests that the areas responsible for music and language share common pathways.

May 09, 2014 07:43 AM EDT

Squid Reveals Evolutionary Purpose of Pain: Keeping Us Alive After Injury

It turns out that squid may be able to tell us a little bit more about pain and why we experienced heightened sensitivity after an accident or injury.

May 09, 2014 07:24 AM EDT

Climate Change May Drastically Impact Oceanic Food Web: Primary Producers Decrease

Scientists have discovered that phytoplankton and zooplankton biomass may decrease by 6 and 11 percent by the end of the century due to climate change. This could have some major impacts on the oceanic food web.

May 09, 2014 07:24 AM EDT

Tropical Trees are Super-Charged in Borneo Compared to Amazon Rainforest

Scientists have found that the woody growth of these forests is half as great again as the most productive forests of north-west Amazonia; that's a difference of 3.2 tons of wood per hectare per year.

May 09, 2014 06:55 AM EDT

Scientists Discover 24 New Species of Wasps that Mummify Caterpillars

The ancient Egyptians weren't the only ones to employ mummification. Scientists have now uncovered 24 new species of wasps in Ecuador that mummify caterpillars.

May 09, 2014 06:50 AM EDT

Strange, Deep Sea Animals Thrive on Lost Shipping Container

Scientists have taken a closer look at ocean communities and have discovered a lost shipping container almost 4,200 feet below the surface of Monterey Bay that has helped create a deep-sea animal community.

May 09, 2014 06:32 AM EDT

New Regenerating Plastic Material Regrows After Being Damaged

Scientists have created a revolutionary, self-healing material. They've managed to construct plastic that not only heals, but regenerates when it's damaged.

May 09, 2014 06:13 AM EDT

Extinct, Kitten-Sized Hunter Stalked the Earth 13 Million Years Ago

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient, kitten-sized hunter that lived 13 million years ago.

May 09, 2014 05:51 AM EDT

Scientists Discover Completely New Order of Marine Creatures Among Sea Anemones

Using DNA, scientists have found that a deep-water creature once thought to be one of the world's largest sea anemones, with tentacles reaching more than 6.5 feet long, is actually part of a completely different order of animals.

May 09, 2014 05:46 AM EDT

Electromagnetic 'Smog' Blocks Robins' Internal Compass: Birds Can't Navigate

Scientists have discovered that the magnetic compass of robins fails completely when the birds are exposed to AM radio waveband electromagnetic interference.

May 09, 2014 05:27 AM EDT

Black Death Survivors Were Healthier After Bubonic Plague Ravaged Europe

Researchers are learning a bit more about the Black Death, and have found that those who survived it were healthier and lived longer than people who lived before the epidemic.