While rates of evolution have appeared to accelerate over short time periods, new analysis suggests that statistical noise is ...

A scientist guides a long tube into the mouth and down to the stomach of Thing 1, a two-month-old calf that is part of a ...

The deal reached at UN climate talks in Azerbaijan ramps up the money that wealthy historic emitters will provide to help ...

Imagine you are a blue whale swimming up the California coast, as you do every spring. You are searching for krill in the ...

On March 2, 2022, delegates to the UN environment assembly adopted an ambitious resolution to develop the text of a new ...

A recent study in Physical Review Letters explores quantum effects on black hole thermodynamics and geometry, focusing on ...

A team of marine biologists from Norway, the U.S. and Denmark has conducted the first hearing test of a live baleen whale.

Since we last spoke, researchers at the University of Birmingham have defined the precise shape of a single photon (spoiler: ...

Peer review is a central feature of academic work. It's the process through which research ends up published in an academic ...

The term "social distancing" spread out across the public vocabulary in recent years as people around the world changed ...

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get ...

Protons and neutrons–known collectively as nucleons–are both the building blocks of matter, but one of these particles has ...