A new Washington University in St. Louis' study takes on the Herculean task of studying the linguistic choices of more than 800 political parties from 87 democracies around the world, including the ...

Nasa is developing ways to use nuclear power to send spacecraft to their destinations. Nuclear propulsion could greatly ...

Researchers have recently found a new way to summon useful structures in magnetic materials using light, heat, and electric fields. This new method, described in a new study published in Physical ...

In our research in the British Library's medieval collections, we have identified a previously unnoticed document that ...

Bottom trawlers extract one-quarter of the world's fisheries catches by weight and raise significant ecological, economic and ...

As married research professors at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Dustin Gilbert and Anne Murray often discuss their work once they get home each night. Their fields of study rarely crossover.

Atmospheric methane levels have surged to record highs in recent years and are projected to increase by as much as 13% by ...

When physicists fire beams of fast electrons at materials, they often need to know exactly how much energy those electrons will lose as they travel through. Through new research published in Physical ...

Alaska's Cook Inlet was home to nearly 1,300 beluga whales in the late 1970s, but today the population hovers around 300. Despite almost two decades of recovery work, the whales aren't bouncing back.

You're an anaerobic microbe sunbathing on a Martian beach billions of years ago listening to the small waves hit the ...

When you hear the word "epoxide," what do you think? If anything, likely "glue." But epoxides are quite common in our ...

Seasonal influenza can spread rapidly, and timely information on rising cases is essential for public health decisions and ...