We had a particularly great week for new research findings, in my opinion. I mean, stories like a 2% improvement in a ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

While the restoration of natural areas is high on political agendas, a comprehensive new study from the University of ...

Collagen, the body's most abundant protein, has long been viewed as a predictable structural component of tissues. However, a ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

Biodiversity is under threat worldwide. While the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...

In an age where social media promises to connect us, a Baylor University study reveals a sobering paradox—the more time we ...

A new study reveals that implementing enhanced weathering (EW), the practice of adding crushed basalt to soils, with U.S.

Research has shown that human bodily responses and cognitive shifts affect each other in both directions. We feel sorry ...