Since the 1960s, greenhouse gas emissions from rice paddies have doubled to the approximate equivalent of 1.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually, a team led by Boston College researchers reports ...

Researchers describe Tylosaurus rex from more than a dozen previously known fossils and update dataset crucial for studying mosasaur evolution “Everything is bigger in Texas and that includes the ...

A new study from Adelaide University has found that when ocean acidification makes reef habitat less complex, the fish living there gather in smaller shoals that offer less social protection.

Younger generations appear to be experiencing poorer health earlier in life than previous generations, according to a review of studies comparing national birth cohort datasets involving tens of ...

Large numbers of college students are now using artificial intelligence to complete – and cheat on – their assignments, suggesting that colleges and universities need to change how they are evaluating ...

Top AI systems only match human examiners for grade bands when marking undergraduate essays around half the time, study finds. AI shows bias towards rewarding complex prose styles regardless of ...

Gold has been prized for thousands of years for its enduring shine, but Tulane University researchers have discovered that gold’s resistance to tarnishing depends on more than its chemistry. In a new ...

Artistic representation of WASP-94A b, a gas giant in the Microscopium constellation. Clouds build as air flows over the dark side of the planet, reaching a large swell by daybreak. The clouds ...

Hair, nails, and horns, all made up of keratin, are some of the hardest and most resilient structures in animals. Inside ...

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have identified a key neural circuit that helps the brain “change gears.” The study shows that a tiny brainstem structure called the locus ...

A new skin-like computing patch developed at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) can analyze health data using artificial intelligence in an unprecedented ...

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have discovered that combining key vaccine ingredients could give the body the tools it needs to fight the entire family of arenaviruses with a ...