A feather-light touch can trigger a chain reaction in a plant in less than a minute. Researchers at Lund University have ...

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 ...

Exposure to sugar in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life increases the risk of developing anxiety in adulthood, a new study from the University of Surrey reports. Scientists also found that sugar ...

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 ...

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 ...

We know that being near someone we love can make us feel good. A new study discovers why: it helps the body work better. The researchers call this principle Social Physiology: the human body regulate ...

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 ...

Left: A freshwater pond formed in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, by the tsunami and land subsidence associated with the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake (Photo: Seiichi Mori). Center: A hybrid population ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reverse (left) and severely deformed obverse (right) of the 1834 William IV silver sixpence investigated in the study. Non-destructive materials analysis found deformation most consistent with an ...

Coastal flooding seems like an unpredictable event, a natural disaster that occurs randomly. But UCF researcher Ivan Haigh has found that recurrent coastal floods actually occur at highly predictable ...