At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a ...

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) have investigated to which extent a piece ...

By analyzing online reading behavior across millions of firms worldwide, a new study out of the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) ...

Acid sulfate soils are characterized by their orange hue and their tendency to kill surrounding vegetation and fish. Anders ...

A survey of a waterway on Wurundjeri land has led to the discovery of new viruses that kill the superbug Klebsiella.

One thing we've learned in recent decades is that exoplanets are surprisingly common. So far, we've confirmed nearly 6,000 ...

It's sometimes said that people buy products they don't really need, with money they don't really have, to impress people ...

A new study has revealed how decadal-scale climate fluctuations impact the ability of climate models to simulate tropical ...

School burnout can manifest in students in different ways. Some might feel tired or anxious, while in others, burnout may ...

The presence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in all the world's oceans but one has been in steady decline since 2001, ...

On Nov. 9, 2024, the world will mark Carl Sagan's 90th birthday—but sadly without Sagan, who died in 1996 at the age of 62.

The "RNA world" hypothesis proposes that the earliest life on Earth may have been based on RNA—a single-stranded molecule ...