A new type of boat propeller could turn down the volume. The post Whales can’t hear each other in the noisy ocean. This inventor has a solution 200 years in the making.
Emily Pearson was diagnosed with a rare condition that left her vulnerable to sun as a teenager. A new medication offers hope.
European deportation practices are governed by a complex web of European, national and human rights law, says the author of a paper published in the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies. Based on 100,000 French court cases, the study shows that national courts play a central rol...
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Physicists with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Grainger College of Engineering have identified a new form of superconducting behavior. Experiments on the metal uranium ditelluride reveal that Cooper pairs, the composite electron units responsible for superconductivity, can organiz...
In this excerpt from "The Story of the Mammals in 25 Discoveries," author Donald R. Prothero looks at a time when the idea of extinction was blasphemous.