Extreme urban heat exposure has dramatically increased since the early 1980s, with the total exposure tripling over the past 35 years. Today, about 1.7 billion people,...
Our Solar System, with just one star in the sky, may be a bit of an oddball. Most of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy...
Many of us come away from conversations with strangers feeling that the interaction has been awkward and unwanted on both sides. But what if we’re wrong?...
US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch. The duo’s research, conducted...
A huge oil spill is killing wildlife and threatening California’s beaches on Monday, in what officials said amounted to an “environmental catastrophe”. Birds and fish had...
For all our current proficiency at studying the cosmos, there are some basic things that are still extremely difficult to do. One of those things is...
Not all ants are hard workers. Some in the colony slave away only so others can avoid pulling their weight. These freeloading hangers-on are known as...
There is no dark side of the Moon. But there are dark spots on it – specifically at the bottom of craters that are never reached...
For the vast majority of animals on Earth, breath is synonymous with life. Yet for the first 2 billion years of our planet’s existence, oxygen was...
An ongoing study among more than 2,000 adults in the Netherlands has found childhood maltreatment is associated with lower quality relationships later in life. Past research...