Why do people make the choices they do? Researchers from the Center Synergy of Systems (SynoSys) at TUD Dresden University of Technology, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and the ...

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is known for targeting immigrants with inflammatory comments about their place in ...

Scientists have grown wheat containing supersized starch granules—a leap forward in biological engineering with potential benefits for our daily diets and a raft of industrial applications.

A new ancient DNA study published in Science Advances provides evidence that political power among Scythian elites may have been inherited through family lineages that extended across multiple burial ...

The Southern Ocean has long stood out as an oddity in the global climate system. While most of the planet's surface oceans have warmed in response to rising greenhouse gases, waters circling ...

Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish may have evolved large brains because of the challenges posed by their environments rather ...

Patients in hospitals generally trust the nursing staff. After all, they have undergone training and, in some cases, have several years of professional experience. In the case of carpenter ants, it is ...

Tropical moist forests account for 70% of global living biomass. Deforestation and degradation—that is, the partial damage to tree stands—as well as the subsequent regeneration of forests therefore ...

As human cases of flea-borne murine typhus continue to occur in South Texas, researchers are working to better understand the ...

The beaver and moose may be enduring symbols of Canadian wildlife, but neither is uniquely Canadian from a genetic ...

Researchers from the Molecular Physics and Physical Chemistry departments of the Fritz Haber Institute have shown how two ...