Animals that regulate their body temperature through the external environment may be resilient to some climate change but not keep pace with rapid cha...
Most consumers have experienced online ads so garish, loud, or aggravating that they can't possibly be ignored. But a new study in the Journal of ...
A new study shows that college students in online courses give better evaluations to instructors they think are men -- even when the instructor is act...
UCL scientists have shown how advanced computer simulations can be used to design new composite materials. Nanocomposites, which are widely used in in...
Voters are more willing to pay for a decreased risk of food-related illness than consumers, but female consumers are more willing to pay than male con...
A new study on tropical shallow-water soft corals, known as gorgonians, found that the species were able to calcify and grow under elevated carbon dio...
Technology that can map out the genes at work in a snake or lizard's mouth has, in many cases, changed the way scientists define an animal as veno...
In 2012 the Mars Science Laboratory landed in the fascinating Gale crater. The Gale crater is of such great interest because of the 5.5 km high mounta...
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a peculiar place. Unlike any other moon, it has a dense atmosphere. It has rivers and lakes made up of components...
Scientists may have solved a long-standing enigma known as the African Humid Period -- an intense increase in cumulative rainfall in parts of Africa t...