In recent years, many media reports and social media influencers have emphasized the dangers of eating too many carbohydrates ...

People are more likely to act helpfully in situations where there are poorer choices to give to others, according to a new study that tested willingness to help others in different contexts. The paper ...

Scientists at the University of Maryland have created Smart Underwear, the first wearable device designed to measure human flatulence. By tracking hydrogen in flatus, the device helps scientists revis ...

While the Trump administration is defunding scientific research and imposing ideological demands on universities, the defenders of this repression are calling for even worse attacks against higher e ...

It seems that for flowering plants to take over the world, first they may have had to help burn the old one away…and then put those fires out.

One of the classic things that people say makes humans special is, well, the language we use to say we're special. But new research suggests that some of our evolutionary cousins might b ...

Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don’t ...

A new study conducted at the Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences and the Sylvan Adams Sports Science Institute at Tel ...

The University of Trento has demonstrated for the first time the existence of an empty lava tube beneath the planet’s surface ...

Guidance based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be uniquely placed to foster biases in humans, leading to less effective decision making say researchers, who found that people with a positive view ...

The crash looked season-ending, maybe career-ending. On January 30th, Lindsey Vonn wiped out just seconds into her downhill ...

Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometres per second, just over double Earth&rsquo ...