A new study finds that when people engage in participatory science activities that involve awe-inspiring natural phenomena, ...

Autistic Australians face a homelessness risk nearly three times higher than the general population, according to new ...

A new research paper from the University of Kent School of Psychology has found that sexual objectification increases when men are sexually aroused, challenging common Western beliefs that this ...

In evolutionary biology, all life on Earth is theoretically part of a single phylogenetic tree, indicating common ancestry.

The Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) is famous because adults look like overgrown babies, or tadpoles, retaining ...

New research from the University of Sydney has provided the first associative link between heat stress and koala mortality. Published in Biology Letters, the results highlight how even moderate ...

The history of a forest might be measured by the trunks and branches looming overhead. But for some researchers at Michigan State University, a forest's future lies in what's growing under their feet.

Scientists have discovered a way to convert widely used plastics into new materials with distinct properties that degrade ...

Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may have been far smaller during one of Earth's most recent warm ...

Each of us tells a story about who we are, often tracing our identity back through an imagined line of ancestors. Though identity is fundamentally cultural, we tend to anchor it in biology—in the idea ...

Mutual credit relations between banks can destabilize the financial system, as the 2007-08 crisis laid bare. Researchers at ...

NASA had a big—and little—problem. For a small satellite, the agency needed a tiny antenna, with very specific communication ...