On a sweltering August afternoon or in the teeth of a winter storm, New York City subway riders make a quiet calculation: Is ...

Mammals and dinosaurs coexisted on Earth until a catastrophic event 66 million years ago killed 75% of life on the planet.

Catalysis—the reduction of activation energy in a chemical reaction by a catalyst—plays a key role in the chemical industry, ...

The GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and the international accelerator facility FAIR have made an important ...

For some time, researchers have assumed that solid materials could gain more useful properties by making their microscopic ...

At some highly selective colleges and universities, cohorts of mostly white, wealthy applicants have three to eight times ...

Scientists have mapped in unprecedented detail the structure of Vibrio bacteria, which can cause life-threatening infections ...

When humans are moving as a crowd, their movements tend to be highly coordinated, similarly to the collective motions of bird ...

They already have the bill of a duck, the tail of a beaver, lay eggs like reptiles and have venom like snakes.

Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change ...

An international research team led by DTU has developed a new magnetic material that features a stable internal magnetic ...

This week, researchers reported that malaria influenced population distribution in Africa thousands of years ago.