Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether Earth is truly unique.
Do you think that a person who reorganizes their life so that their aging parents can live with them would be likely to push another out of the way on the subway? What about greeting strangers with a smile? The answers to these questions are at the heart of a puzzle social psychologists have be...
Australia had a much larger Indigenous population before the arrival of Europeans than previously thought, according to new research. The research also demonstrates much larger population losses resulting from colonization than previously believed, with an estimated 93% of the pre-European popul...
NASA employees say they've lost vital equipment and staff needed to make sophisticated spacecraft amid the agency's abrupt relocations over the past several months.
Back Me Up is a tiny science-ish machine that finds published papers that back your argument. It stemmed from a conversation with a friend around life sciences, where we kind of landed at "surely there’s a paper confirming most arguments", i. e.
Several hundred scientists, government officials, and environmentalists gathered for an unusual two-day conference in Newport, Oregon, last week, entirely focused on a single species: gray whales. It was an urgent meeting. The number of gray whales along the U.