Oceans shape everyday life in powerful ways. They cover 70% of the planet, carry 90% of global trade, and support millions of ...

Once the world's most populous nation, China is now among the many Asian countries struggling with anemic fertility rates. In ...

Whales, dolphins and other marine mammals are highly social, but those social ties can also help diseases spread through ...

Research reveals when and why ancient tropical seas transitioned from oxygen oases to marine dead zones, providing clues to ...

A new discovery about how cells communicate with each other in the body's immune system has revealed deeper insights for an ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), has uncovered the first decisive evidence that at least some fast radio ...

A research project conducted by the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung shows how biomass can be used as a raw material ...

Many people are familiar with histamine, a biological molecule that serves as a key driver of allergic reactions and other ...

A new framework for understanding the nonmonotonic temperature dependence and sign reversal of the chirality-related ...

Scientists at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL have realized a long-pursued experimental goal in physics: to show how ...

Scientists have discovered there is more to Antarctica than meets the eye. A new map of the landscape beneath the frozen continent's ice sheet has revealed a previously hidden world of mountains, deep ...