A new Special Report in the journal BioScience introduces the Scientist Network for Advancing Policy (SNAP), a student-led, ...

Arsenio Butil Jr. fell to his knees and began to pray when last week's deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake began shaking his home on the coast of the southern Philippines.

A chance discovery at Nagoya University in Japan has shown that a well-known brain enzyme has a hidden ability: It builds a ...

Off Oman's coast lives a small population of just over 80 Arabian Sea humpback whales (ASHWs). They are classified as ...

Australian Antarctic Program scientists are contributing to global understanding of the spread of H5 avian influenza (bird flu) with the release of findings from recent voyages to the remote ...

Building more apartments will not solve Australia's housing affordability crisis unless policymakers address rising house prices and investor activity, new research shows. Australia's housing ...

Probiotic supplements found in drugstores nationwide contain an assortment of microbes sold for specific health purposes despite limited understanding of the microbes' connections to their marketed ...

In this era of Big Data, the prevailing wisdom is that more information leads to better answers. However, a new Canadian ...

Physicists at UC Santa Cruz and other institutes across California and New Mexico have developed a detection system that will ...

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts are some of the most energetic events in the universe, releasing more energy in just a few ...

Sending a spacecraft to the underexplored planet Uranus is at the top of many planetary scientists' wish lists. But which ...

Should you marry that person? Quit a steady career to retrain? Move across the country, away from aging parents? Sit with any ...