New research suggests for the first time that wild boars and wart hogs have an internal magnetic compass that helps them orient themselves as they for...
Clouds may have a net warming or cooling effect on climate, depending on their thickness and altitude. Artificially formed clouds called contrails for...
A special communication article published online by JAMA Pediatrics explores whether new paradigms in child health may emerge because of Zika virus. P...
Insects have evolved diverse types of camouflage that have played an important role in their evolutionary success. Debris-carrying, a behavior of acti...
The genome of the corn plant - or maize, as it's called almost everywhere except the US - "is a lot more exciting" than scientists have ...
When dormant volcanoes are about to erupt, they show some predictive characteristics--seismic activity beneath the volcano starts to increase, gas esc...
A new study by Simon Fraser University marine ecologists Jessica Schultz, Ryan Cloutier and Isabelle Côté has discovered that a mass mort...
Research teams on both sides of the Atlantic have shown that precise modeling of the universe and its contents will change the detailed understanding ...
Around 4.6 billion years ago, the universe was a chaos of collapsing gas and spinning debris. Small particles of gas and dust clumped together into la...
Teacher burnout and student stress may be linked, according to a University of British Columbia study. The study is the first of its kind to examine t...