Deforestation slowed worldwide last year, but the improvement is unlikely to last as the situation deteriorates in Central ...

Until now, the alien white-hot worlds of exoplanets have been depicted as circular, but new research has revealed the true ...

The two warmest time periods on Earth in the past 140 million years drove both mass extinctions and explosions in plant ...

Lilly Jan was perplexed and a little annoyed. Last year, Jan, an assistant teaching professor in the Cornell Nolan School of ...

Multiple coveys of wild bobwhite quail were recently sighted at the University of Tennessee's Ames AgResearch and Education ...

Researchers have developed a new computational model that accounts for the effects of aging on our eyes' ability to ...

People who are better at noticing fine details in sound—an ability known as auditory precision—can master the pronunciation ...

Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University have discovered that humans and songbirds use markedly ...

A new species of dinosaur—a long-clawed predator the size of a large tiger—has been discovered by a UCL-led team from a ...

When drugmakers want to improve on compounds they have already created, they can replace a carbon atom with a nitrogen atom.

In biology, a group of enzymes called 2-oxoglutarate-dependent oxygenases is responsible for catalyzing a wide range of ...

A faster way of finding the best diamond-based materials for quantum computers has been developed by a researcher at the U.S.