Forming social connections online and via social media reduces how much people engage with and learn from the content posted but significantly boosts their networking performance, according to new ...

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that high-frequency ultrasound waves similar to ...

Garlic is not a substance that most people consider an aphrodisiac. It turns out that mosquitoes agree. In fact, a new Yale study finds that garlic also functions as a de facto birth control for ...

With over 60,000 ships passing through the Strait of Gibraltar each year, this stretch between the Atlantic and Mediterranean ...

A new computational method could dramatically accelerate efforts to map the body's cells in space, according to a study ...

For decades, the common explanation for why children struggle to read has stayed remarkably consistent. Smart kids read well. Kids who don't simply aren't smart enough. And when children strain over a ...

You probably know that Einstein changed the face of physics with his theory of relativity in his twenties. What you may not ...

A study led by researchers at the University of Liège reveals the mechanism by which surfactin, a molecule produced by ...

When most people think about biodiversity in lakes and rivers, they imagine fish, plants, or perhaps birds and amphibians. But beneath the surface exists another world that often goes unnoticed: ...

A new study warns that unless atmospheric carbon is reduced immediately, future summers will become even hotter and future ...

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a solid polymer coated with harmless viruses to detect the bacteria Salmonella enterica (S. enterica), an advance that could lead to ...

Millet has been an important crop in East Asia for much of the Holocene, a period beginning about 11,700 years ago. To better understand how environmental conditions may have shaped the development of ...