Living amongst large predatory carnivores could actually make you safer. A study publishing in the Cell Press journal Current ...

A new study reports that omega-3 fatty acids are highest in milk labeled as organic grass-fed and lowest in conventionally-produced milk. Other fatty acids varied by dairy production method and season ...

Analysing ancient DNA of over 500 mammoth bones, an international team of researchers found that Ice Age humans selectively ...

An international study led by Flinders University has found a fertile area of inspiration to explain an important step in evolution – and it’s a whole lot of poop. The new study describes the ‘faecal ...

Ports rank among the most disturbed marine environments. Pollutants like trash, oil, and toxins from antifouling paints tend to accumulate in enclosed harbors. Invasive species arriving in ballast ...

A study in Earth's Future, the first of its kind to be conducted at the national level for the contiguous United States, reveals that 84% of the country's coastal wetlands are gradually inundating as ...

Adult black-legged kittiwakes tend to their chicks at a breeding colony on Middleton Island, Alaska, where researchers experimentally raised the energy cost of flight in some birds during breeding.

WASHINGTON — 66 million years ago, the six-mile-wide Chicxulub asteroid crash-landed in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and changed life on Earth forever. The reign of the dinosaurs ended, and only ...

Infants use eye contact with speakers to work out what to pay attention to and synchronise their brainwaves, helping them learn language, scientists in Cambridge and Singapore have shown. Infants are ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have recovered and analysed the first ancient smallpox virus genomes ever identified in the Americas, providing the strongest direct evidence to date that the ...