Approximately 31 percent of food produced in the U.S., or 133 billion pounds of food worth $162 billion, was wasted in 2011 according to the United St...
Early humans were the dominant cause of the extinction of a variety of species of giant beasts, new research has revealed. Scientists at the universit...
Indiana University paleobotanist David Dilcher and colleagues in Europe have identified a 125 million- to 130 million-year-old freshwater plant as one...
Scientists have revealed never-before-seen details of how our brain sends rapid-fire messages between its cells. They mapped the 3-D atomic structure ...
Glaciers in Central Asia experience substantial losses in glacier mass and area. Along the Tien Shan, Central Asia's largest mountain range, glaci...
New research from North Carolina State University and Reed College shows that when fruit flies are attacked by parasites or bacteria they respond by p...
Gang slayings move in a systematic pattern over time, spreading from one vulnerable area to the next like a disease, finds a groundbreaking study by M...
Using a vomiting device of their creation, researchers at North Carolina State University and Wake Forest University are reporting the first direct ev...
In a paper titled Hummingbird tongues are elastic micropumps which appears in the August 19 issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Alejandro Ric...
Students who have used electronic cigarettes by the time they start ninth grade are more likely than others to start smoking traditional cigarettes an...