Researchers say a spike in temperatures during an ice age 304 million years ago could inform what climate scientists are learning about rapidly changing conditions today. University of Cincinnati ...

University of Maryland scientists found that a matrix surrounding brain cells loosens and rebuilds during learning—and ...

Living amongst large predatory carnivores could actually make you safer. A study publishing in the Cell Press journal Current ...

Analysing ancient DNA of over 500 mammoth bones, an international team of researchers found that Ice Age humans selectively ...

University of Warwick-led astronomers discover the cosmic digestive system of a black hole – showing that even when black holes appear faint, they’re not simply bottomless pits University of ...

Washington D.C. – High blood pressure can be controlled better with a strategy that combines boosting potassium intake with reducing sodium, according to a new report. High blood pressure, or ...

Ports rank among the most disturbed marine environments. Pollutants like trash, oil, and toxins from antifouling paints tend to accumulate in enclosed harbors. Invasive species arriving in ballast ...

A new study from The Wistar Institute has uncovered an unexpected link between fructose — a common dietary sugar — and the spread of an aggressive form of ovarian cancer. Published in Nature Aging, ...

Adult black-legged kittiwakes tend to their chicks at a breeding colony on Middleton Island, Alaska, where researchers experimentally raised the energy cost of flight in some birds during breeding.

A study in Earth's Future, the first of its kind to be conducted at the national level for the contiguous United States, reveals that 84% of the country's coastal wetlands are gradually inundating as ...

Scientists have found the first direct evidence of the powerful role our genetic makeup plays in influencing our risk of cancer, with inherited genes interacting with acquired genetic mutations to ...