Sex work, the exchange of sexual labor for money, goods, or other resources, has likely been a facet of human society since ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) A nuclear fusion startup in New Zealand just published a design for a "levitating dipole" reactor, ...

Some people just seem to be mosquito magnets; in one scientific study, 20 percent of the people ended up with 95 percent of ...

Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide is boosting grass growth in Africa’s water-limited savannas, according to a new study led ...

People who take part in screening for colorectal cancer may have as much as 43 per cent lower risk of dying from the disease, ...

The brain's ability to generate quick, nimble volitional thought—and a unified awareness of thought and experience—arises ...

The moon is a hostile place for life as we know it. Extreme temperatures aside, intense ultraviolet (UV) radiation pummels ...

Being born pre-term (before 37 weeks of development) at a very low birth weight (less than 1500 grams, or 3.3 pounds) is ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of matter. Inside a cooled crystal, structures spontaneously arranged themselves into a ...

A new study from researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) has uncovered a previously unknown consequence of viral infection: too much RNA inside a ...

Humanity may be crossing a demographic line it has never crossed before at a planetary scale: the world population may now be having too few children to replace itself. But the more surprising part of ...

We look through windows every single day, yet the fact we can see a clear image through them is actually kind of amazing - ...