Forty percent of the world's insect species are at risk of extinction in the coming decades, mainly because of habitat loss, ...

Somewhere in the Universe, an alien culture may have developed the technology to build giant megastructures around stars, ...

In skittering clans of cockroaches, scientists have found evidence of a collective memory that emerges solely from ...

Constipation and abdominal pain often occur together, but scientists still don't fully understand how the nervous system ...

Around 7,500 spoken and signed languages are used worldwide today. Yet this extraordinary diversity may represent only a ...

Driving while listening to the radio; making breakfast while talking to the family; eating a sandwich while reading a book.

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Every year, millions of dry metric tons of biosolids – the nutrient-rich stuff left over from municipal sewage treatment, aka ...

In the misty cloud forests of the Andes, there's one particular genus that wildlife traders can't get enough of.

The blood-brain barrier surrounds the blood vessels that run through the brain, letting in oxygen and nutrients while keeping ...

We tend to think of melting as a relatively straightforward process – a solid material's gradual slide towards liquid entropy ...

"With a telescope on Earth, these rings can in principle be observed: since 2010, new polarimeters have been deployed on ...