An irreversible shift in the chemical makeup of the Arctic Ocean driven by climate change is disrupting the region's food ...

Living cells cool much slower than our current understanding of heat conduction can explain, according to new research from the University of Tokyo. Researchers have used two techniques—high-speed ...

Urban planning needs to tackle greenhouse gas emissions—and an important way to achieve this is by reducing the number and length of car commutes. This can be achieved primarily by ensuring that homes ...

Our sun is a loner. It lacks a stellar companion hurtling through interstellar space with it. But we've known for a long time ...

People are exposed to thousands of chemicals every day—through the products they use, the food they eat and the environments they live in—but only a fraction of those chemicals have been fully tested ...

Researchers at TU/e have demonstrated that energy transfer without loss via light or heat can occur over much greater distances than previously thought possible thanks to vibrations in microscopic ...

From the revived corpse of Frankenstein's monster to the disembodied hand, "Thing," in the Addams Family, reanimated tissue ...

The old "monkey see, monkey do" adage may rest on some neuroscientific evidence, finds a new Yale study. To examine how the primate brain facilitates cooperative behavior among individuals during ...

When a team of researchers recorded a low thundering underneath the surface of the Hudson River, they thought they were ...

Researchers have developed a novel virtual model for simulating how astronauts in future moon base operations might interact ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a safer and more precise way to study how genes function in living tissues by refining a recently developed CRISPR-based genetic technique in fruit ...

Birds have all kinds of fancy decorations for attracting mates—male peacocks have a fan of feathers accented with shimmering ...