Clothing with vertical stripes or monochrome can make us look slimmer. They are optical illusions that we have all heard about or applied at some point. But there is a very curious thing that probably no one has in mind when it comes to dressing and that affects…

A team of researchers from the Beijing Academy of Sciences has discovered one of the first ancestors of birds in Fujian (China). Named Fujianvenator prodigiosus, this unusual species of dinosaur is the size of a pheasant and has long legs…

Neuroscience is in luck. And the reason is that the two large families that make up the brain, neurons and glial cells, hid a third cell type. A hybrid cell, halfway between the two previous classes and that ends…