What are the chances of finding extraterrestrial life in our solar system? Professor Frank Postberg, planetary scientist at Freie Universität Berlin, has just published a study in Science Advances ...

Dog brains segment speech into words in a way previously seen only in humans, a new study from Hungary finds. This suggests that efficient speech processing is not necessarily a consequence of humans’ ...

Returning global temperatures to a climate target does not necessarily undo the damage caused by exceeding it, new Concordia-led research finds. The study shows that temporarily overshooting warming ...

Mt. Vesuvius towering above the ruins of Pompeii. The volcano's eruption in 79 C.E. inundated the town. Historical accounts of the disaster have now allowed scientists to recalibrate one of the most ...

PHILADELPHIA – A decade of uterus transplantation in the United States has resulted in dozens of healthy births and steadily improving surgical outcomes, according to a new national review led by ...

309 million years ago, long before the dinosaurs, the area around Chicago was a swampy river delta swarmed with early land-dwellers, giant insects, and strange swimming animals. What once was a hot ...

Ayokunnumi “Ayo” Ogunsanya, a Ph.D. student in Achuth Padmanabhan's research group, is the lead author on a new study that discovered a new possible therapeutic target for treating ovarian cancer.

Plesiosaurs swam into river deltas to vomit up shells and other indigestible elements of their marine meals, suggests new research published by Cambridge University Press. The behaviour resembles that ...

Illustration of the three-dimensional structure of the trans-spliceosome, the molecular machine responsible for a key stage in mRNA maturation in trypanosomatids. A study conducted between the ...

Taylor Evinger, a UC Davis Ph.D. candidate, holds a bottle of orange water sampled from the Igning River in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska. The bright orange plumes of water ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that the amount of knowledge a wild orangutan acquires over its long juvenile development depends on its style of learning, both socially and ...

The team used a new method to visualise the data from laser scans made from a plane flown across a huge swathe of the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland. The resulting images show each tree - and ...