Researchers have discovered a new genus and species of underground earthworm eel living beneath the Indo-Gangetic Plain in Bihar, northern India. The small, colourless creature, named Gangaichthys ...

Islands are widely recognized as natural laboratories of evolution. The ocean restricts movement among islands, allowing isolated populations to adapt to different environments and, at times, diverge ...

CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences AI-based “tissue clocks” can estimate the biological age of human organs from histological images, researchers at the ...

Researchers say a spike in temperatures during an ice age 304 million years ago could inform what climate scientists are ...

A lost letter from the Pope could rewrite the story of 1066 – according to research from the University of East Anglia. Excerpts from the letter are now held in the Vatican archives and they suggest ...

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 ...

The highest-resolution image of the Sun's surface (photosphere) ever captured, taken at 416 nanometers by the Inouye Solar Telescope. At the edges of the solar granules, the image reveals ...

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 ...

Analysing ancient DNA of over 500 mammoth bones, an international team of researchers found that Ice Age humans selectively targeted female woolly mammoths. The results of the study, published in ...

A new study showed that consuming breakfast increased the overall intake of important nutrients such as fiber, iron, zinc and choline in teens who tended to skip breakfast. Study participants received ...

A group of orcas in the Gulf of California has been observed applying a hold-to-ram strategy to process a sharp-tail sunfish. This is a previously undescribed behavior which could be a form of ...