If you thought Luke Skywalker's home planet, Tatooine, was a strange world with its two suns in the sky, imagine this: a planet where you'd ei...
For the first time in New Zealand waters an extremely rare grouping of Shepherd's Beaked Whales has been spotted from a University of Otago resear...
Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) with a loss of consciousness (LOC) may be associated with later development of Parkinson's disease but not Alzheimer&...
Children who suck their thumbs or bite their nails may be less likely to develop allergies, according to a new study from New Zealand's University...
No need to head to the movie theater or download the video game app: Angry Birds can be found right in your backyard this summer--if you live in the s...
Scientists from the University of Oxford have shown that newly hatched ducklings can readily acquire the concepts of 'same' and 'different...
Levels of global biodiversity loss may negatively impact on ecosystem function and the sustainability of human societies, according to UCL-led researc...
A new study has found for the first time that ocean warming is the primary cause of retreat of glaciers on the western Antarctic Peninsula. The Penins...
Why do some organisms within a single species have many offspring, while others have relatively few? A new study led by University of Minnesota resear...