Keeping to warm climates throughout their 250-million-year history may have helped crocodiles and their relatives survive the ...

New research suggests the same personality traits associated with toxic corporate leaders today may have been present at the very birth of global capitalism 400 years ago.

Water scarcity seldom starts wars, but wars increasingly degrade vital water systems on which health and recovery depend, creating a cycle that reinforces ongoing fragility and violence, warn experts ...

A coastal landscape of Minamata city, Japan at sunset. The image reflects the study’s call for an approach to education that recognizes uncertainty, vulnerability and the complex relationship between ...

Adult male condor in Patagonia showing the soaring flight that allows birds to flap remarkably little despite their large size. An Andean condor and a trumpeter swan both weigh about 11 kilograms. Yet ...

Changes to how our genes are turned on and off are critical to health but are difficult to study. A new technology called FIRE pairs machine learning with advanced DNA sequencing to find regions that ...

The first definitive evidence of when post-Roman lead production began in one of Europe’s largest medieval lead-producing regions, the Derbyshire Peak District in central England, has been uncovered ...

A conceptual figure from the study showing how researchers used InSAR deformation data to create a permeability map of the aquifer after about 6 months of groundwater pumping. The bottom layer is ...

Every organ and tissue progressively loses function as it ages, but aging tissues retain a latent capacity for rejuvenation.

Since its introduction more than 150 years ago, the thought-provoking idea of a Maxwell demon has profoundly shaped our understanding of the relationship between information and energy. The Maxwell ...

Campaigns and initiatives aimed at advancing equity for girls and women often reference gender—“The future is female” or “Fight like a girl,” for instance. However, is such messaging effective in ...

HAMILTON, Ont. - Healthy adults who eat high amounts of ultra-processed food, like packaged snack foods, sugary breakfast cereals, soft drinks, instant noodles, and ready-to-eat frozen meals, are more ...