Scientists at Cornell University have found a human genetic element in a poxvirus and discovered that it is both an important ...

Our pupils become smaller under brighter conditions and larger under darker conditions. In addition to responding to changes ...

The atoms of the 5th element of the periodic table often find themselves in the company of each other, forming allotropes ...

Climate change is bringing extreme summer heat to many more countries, but using the right plants in your garden could help ...

Classical computers can temporarily store the information required to perform specific tasks in a short-term memory component ...

An electron's charge is normally fixed, like a coin you can't break into pieces. But if electrons are cooled close to ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago's Climate Impact Lab combined temperature forecasts with research on how heat ...

Humans and domesticated animals have lived together for millennia, and this relationship has shaped their destinies in ...

Researchers have also found that some plants will grow toward the sound of running water if it is played over speakers. Some ...

The use of racially discriminatory housing maps in the 1930s, a practice known as "redlining," perpetuated multigenerational ...

From coffee shops to customer service call centers, most people believe they have a good sense of how long a service will ...

The area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole peaked at more than 27 million square kilometers (10.4 million square miles) in ...