Neural tissue normally dies quickly without oxygen. Yet bird retinas—among the most energy-demanding tissues in the animal ...

The discovery fundamentally changes the understanding of a structure in the avian eye that has been misinterpreted for centuries.

Bird retinas survive without oxygen by burning sugar scientists solve 300 year mystery that could help treat human strokes.

Biologists have finally solved a centuries-old mystery regarding how birds maintain sharp eyesight despite ...

These underground rodents are the first mammals found to actively choose air with lower-than-normal oxygen levels. Their ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

If Indian fashion has a modern vocabulary, Tarun Tahiliani probably helped write it. For three decades, the designer has ...

A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...

The study, led by scientists from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, opens the door to more efficient artificial intelligence chips through storage devices with densities ...