Career pressure—not ideology—causes military officers to protect or overthrow dictators. New research from the Department of ...

In Europe, it is well documented that bird species associated with agricultural landscapes have experienced a sharp decline ...

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have developed a method that gives access to the valuable raw ...

Like a recording artist who has had a long career, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has a "back catalog" of cosmic recordings ...

Within the S&P 500, only a small fraction of chief executive officers speak with an accent or come from foreign backgrounds.

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For the first time, physicists have generated and observed stable bright matter-wave solitons with attractive interactions ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This ...

Iron is an essential trace element in biological cells. The concentration of the element and its so-called redox state—it can ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...

Child sexual abuse cases involving female perpetrators are confronting and distressing. When these cases make the news, they ...

A new study of climate extremes since 1988 finds that many regions have seen increases in deaths due to floods, storms and ...