At least three and possibly up to 15 birds have died of avian flu at two New York City zoos, according to the organization ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

All animals live in or seek a set of climate conditions they find tolerable. This "climate envelope" partially determines ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the ...

We had a particularly great week for new research findings, in my opinion. I mean, stories like a 2% improvement in a ...

Last month was the hottest January on record, blitzing the previous high and stunning climate scientists who expected cooler ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

Scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt have identified a new way to probe the interior of neutron stars using ...

Researchers have designed a single-photon time-of-flight LiDAR system that can produce high-resolution 3D images of objects and faces that are some distance away. The top images show 3D printed ...

Now, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professors Rob Martienssen and Thomas Gingeras are uncovering the genetics behind choices farmers made 9,000 years ago. They aim to better understand how ...

New CABI-led research using publicly-shared DNA barcodes and citizen science images have provided new evidence on the ...

In 2016, nearly 200 world leaders pledged to do everything possible to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Since ...