A new study by an international research team led by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) has revealed striking similarities in the ...

Seawater is seeping into Italy's longest river as the waterway starts to run dry in the heat wave, hitting a farming heartland that produces the milk for Parmesan cheese.

A large asteroid will zip past Earth this weekend, but don't worry: It poses no danger. The space rock—1997 NC1—makes its closest approach Saturday morning, coming within 1.6 million miles (2.6 ...

Scientists have spotted two humpback whales that made separate, record-breaking crossings between Australia and Brazil.

In Estonian schools, social studies classes provide a thorough education on what democracy is and what it means to be a citizen. However, knowledge alone is not enough to foster active citizenship or ...

Investigative interviewing—the process of obtaining accurate and complete accounts from victims, witnesses and suspects—is the lifeblood of the criminal justice system.

The Botanical Garden in Uppsala was recently visited by animal ecology researchers, who conducted a BioBlitz to find, ...

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species in the same order can have very different average lifespans. One of the ...

Uranus and Neptune remain two of the most mysterious objects in the solar system, primarily because they have been visited only by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986 and 1989, respectively. Their ...

In many organizations, large hierarchical gaps exist within work teams, raising the question of how frontline employees can strive for upward mobility in their careers. A recent study by the ...

As drought and water uncertainty put increasing pressure on orchard systems, researchers at the USDA Agricultural Research ...

The Himalayas are often seen as one of Earth's great natural barriers, separating the heavily populated and industrialized regions of South Asia from the remote Tibetan Plateau. But new research, ...