The use of explosives to kill fish is widespread across the tropics, and acoustic monitoring in an Indonesian archipelago ...

Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions, resulting in restrictions on water use in many areas and ...

Memories in mice persisted even after they lost the connections that we thought were needed for recall, expanding our ...

Descent passed from mother to daughter rather than from father to son, a study of more than 500 Iron Age individuals from ...

Quantum entanglement is key to solving a 250-year-old mathematical puzzle – and the discovery could ultimately help build quantum computers that are more resilient to errors. In the 1700s, according ...

Scientists once believed they could pinpoint the moment when humans first appeared. But as new fossils have filled in our evolutionary history, that defining moment has begun to disappear – replaced b ...

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