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.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new unsupervised machine learning approach has been developed to enhance the analysis of data from the LIGO facility, which detects gravitational waves. This ...

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

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 ...

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies ...