The growing use of AI-generated scientific and science-related content, especially on social media, raises important concerns ...

A "peculiar" ancient relative of the crocodile which experts believe began life on four legs before, in adulthood, it learned ...

Payments that enable landowners to rewild ecologically degraded land—in the form of biodiversity credits bought by investors ...

In physics, the mesoscale lies between the microscopic and the macroscopic. It is not just the domain of tiny living ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Researchers in the US have demonstrated how quantum entanglement could be used to detect optical signals from astronomical ...

The Doomsday Clock—a symbolic device to signal an array of existential threats to the world since 1947—was recently moved to ...

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A Purdue University contraceptive vaccine seeks to address animal overpopulation by markedly reducing fertility in feral ...

For the first time, physicists have demonstrated that a material's superconductivity can be altered by coupling it to an in-built, light-confining cavity. In experiments published in Nature, a team ...

The electronic and magnetic properties of two-dimensional materials both have strong potential for technological applications. Researchers have long assumed that they are distinct phenomena, but ...

Evidence suggests that China's "cradle of civilization" experienced marked climate disasters and social upheavals during the mid-late Holocene (around 3,000 years ago). However, the direct causes and ...