The potential evolutionary link between hairs in mammals, feathers in birds and scales in reptiles has been debated for decades. Today, researchers of...
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...
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...
Research teams on both sides of the Atlantic have shown that precise modeling of the universe and its contents will change the detailed understanding ...
A new study by Simon Fraser University marine ecologists Jessica Schultz, Ryan Cloutier and Isabelle Côté has discovered that a mass mort...
When dormant volcanoes are about to erupt, they show some predictive characteristics--seismic activity beneath the volcano starts to increase, gas esc...
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 ...
Insects have evolved diverse types of camouflage that have played an important role in their evolutionary success. Debris-carrying, a behavior of acti...
A special communication article published online by JAMA Pediatrics explores whether new paradigms in child health may emerge because of Zika virus. P...
Clouds may have a net warming or cooling effect on climate, depending on their thickness and altitude. Artificially formed clouds called contrails for...