Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers began building massive earthwork mounds along the Mississippi River at Poverty Point, ...

Researchers at Kyushu University have found that rising CO2 levels in our atmosphere could lead to future disruptions in ...

Today's computers store information in magnetic hard drives, keeping files safe even when the device is powered off. But to ...

Topological insulators could form the basis for revolutionary electronic components. However, as they generally only function ...

Scientists at the University of Glasgow have harnessed a powerful supercomputer, normally used by astronomers and physicists ...

When a slab slides beneath an overriding plate in a subduction zone, the slab takes on a property called anisotropy, meaning ...

Floods account for up to 40% of weather-related disasters worldwide, and their frequency has more than doubled since 2000, ...

A new study analyzing historical photographs taken by the Palomar Observatory between 1949 and 1957 has detected several ...

Metagenomics is the study of all organisms present in a particular environment, such as soil, water, or the human body. A key ...

As the world marks UN World Cities Day on 31 October—a call to make cities more sustainable—a new international study ...

Animals respond to injury in many ways. So far, evidence for animals tending wounds with biologically active materials is ...

Wolves roaming the Mongolian steppes cover more than 7,000 kilometers a year. The Arctic tern flies from pole to pole in its ...