Decades of unregulated industrial waste dumping in areas of the Great Lakes have created a host of environmental and wildlife problems. Now it appears...
A new study found that after restricting sleep to 5 hours per night, caffeine use no longer improved alertness or performance after three nights. Resu...
In 50 years, summers across most of the globe could be hotter than any summer experienced by people to date, according to a study by scientists at the...
Gravitational waves from a second pair of colliding black holes has validated the landmark discovery from earlier this year that confirmed Einstein...
Like a pair of human hands, certain organic molecules have mirror-image versions of themselves, a chemical property known as chirality. These so-calle...
A pair of studies led by Indiana University researchers provide new evidence that when it comes to evolution, the testes may play a key role. The rese...
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Exeter are one step closer to developing a new generation of low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells. T...
Cats understand the principle of cause and effect as well as some elements of physics. Combining these abilities with their keen sense of hearing, the...
Plant pollens vary in quality as food sources for bees, and pollen from the sunflower family (the family that includes dandelions, daisies, and thistl...
Environmental scientists from the University of Stirling have found beech forests across western Europe are increasingly at risk from drought - with a...