There is no such thing as a universal mosquito magnet. In a new study published in iScience, Florida International University ...

Researchers at Duke University School of Medicine are investigating how to keep opioids' pain-relieving benefits while ...

Birdsong and Whale song show patterns similar to human language The songs produced by birds share similarities with the structure of human language, a study shows. An international team of researchers ...

Academic science is a tale of broken incentives. Scholars must choose whether to publish what advances their career or to ...

Vitamins in pregnancy are usually discussed in terms of a baby’s health at birth. But could the amount of vitamin D taken ...

(via Cool Worlds) The "Great Filter" is a pivotal idea in astrobiology. It may very well explain the Fermi Paradox. Today we ...

In the 1850s, German scientists were trying to figure out how to weigh a forest – but they weren’t particularly interested in ...

Scientists have reconstructed the complete genome of a real person, with full sets of chromosomes from each parent, a ...

Your bones may seem like the most permanent part of your body: hard, solid and finished. In reality, they’re under constant ...

The recent confirmation of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet called LHS 1140b has created a wave of interest within the ...

In 1869, an explorer found himself in a Utah canyon that, as far as he knew, shouldn't have existed. The Green River he was ...

What enables us to sustain effort toward goals, even when the task becomes increasingly difficult? A recent study by ...