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

Researchers have discovered honey beehives act as ‘living immune systems’ that help protect the bee colony, their offspring, and food supplies from disease. The finding underlines the need to protect ...

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 ...

What if the brain evolved to serve the gut? Scientists at Flinders University are challenging a cornerstone of biology, arguing that the gut's nervous system may be the body's original "brain", with ...

University of Warwick astronomers have shown that white dwarf stars can glow in a remarkable range of colours, including the first star ever found that would appear green to the human eye. For most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Metabolic reprogramming and epigenetic regulation form a bidirectional regulatory network that drives hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression. HCC cells undergo extensive metabolic alterations, ...

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

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 ...