In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...

Science and policy are never truly free from one another. But one country's policy doesn't typically cross borders.

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On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

Women in England will soon be able to get the morning-after pill for free at every community pharmacy. No ID checks, no ...

What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...

This study, though small (just 10 young men), suggests that cold exposure can activate molecular pathways associated with ...

I'm a radio astronomer who works with the biggest telescopes in Australia to search for radio light from stars and things ...

The first blossoms of the season popped open last week in Tokyo. At the Yasukuni Shrine, a lone Somei Yoshino tree revealed just enough blooms—five, to be exact—for the Japan Meteorological Agency to ...

The spotted estuary smoothhound, or “rig shark”, a modest little shark with mosaic teeth and a fondness for crustaceans, ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

The results were telling. Plants selected by chimpanzees to make tools were significantly more flexible — on average, 175% ...