Botanists at the University of New England (UNE) have formally described a new plant species endemic to northeastern New South Wales (NSW), ending more than a century of scientific misidentification.

For all the diversity of the human condition, one experience is almost universally painful: adolescence. It's also unusual.

In a cramped, windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley, campus, two bespoke microscopes—each a Swiss Army ...

Rice feeds more than half the world. From terraced paddies in Southeast Asia to irrigated fields in China and India, it ...

Today (May 22) is United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, drawing attention to a critical resource for developing crops that are resilient or resistant to extreme weather and other ...

A Nature Sustainability paper titled "A multidimensional assessment of Systemic Cooling Poverty in the Global South," ...

Astronomers from Italy and Brazil have investigated a nearby red dwarf star known as Ross 318 and have discovered an ...

A new chip-making technique exploits a material's crystal structure to create nanoscale patterns at room temperature directly onto hard materials used in devices, including silica. The method could ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt has survived more than 4,500 years. Earthquakes have repeatedly shaken the region, including the magnitude 5.8 Cairo earthquake in 1992, which dislodged some of the ...

Vortices in superconductors have so far been considered a disruption, as they can impair the superconducting properties.

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have confirmed a reintroduced platypus population in Royal National Park has now grown to 20 ...

A new study, published in Ecology and Evolution, shows that social living is associated with longer lifespan, but also that the benefits of sociality level off once animals move beyond living in pairs ...