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The first grizzly bear hunt in Wyoming for over 40 years ignores the questionable conservation status and emotional capacities of these iconic animals, says Marc Bekoff

People have no idea how fast the world is changing. So said Peter Diamandis to the audience at Singularity University's Global Summit, taking place this week in San Francisco. Diamandis believes the convergence of multip...

The "Equal Earth" projection shows the true area of continents such as Africa without greatly distorting their shapes and is already being adopted by NASA

(Columbia University) In a new study in Science Advances, researchers report that their physics-based model of California earthquake hazards replicated estimates from the state's leading statistical model.

There's a chunk of hard ice north of Greenland that isn't there anymore.

(Swansea University) Swansea University scientists working at CERN have published a study detailing a breakthrough in antihydrogen research.The ALPHA team experiment shows how the scientists improved efficiency in the sy...

A US study is the latest to suggest robots could help autistic children learn social skills. Unfortunately, it's far from proven

We've long known that fireflies light up to woo mates, but now we know they also do it to warn bats that they taste disgusting

Sleep restriction seems to drive extra fat storage and loss of lean muscle, which could explain why troubled sleepers and shift workers are prone to obesity

Most of the time, cooking is a matter of following a recipe--combine specific amounts of specific ingredients in the right way and the predictable outcome is that you'll wind up with a tasty meal.

The failure of parents to vaccinate their children has contributed to the biggest surge in measles cases Europe has seen in a decade, included 37 deaths

A sliver of bone once belonged to "Denny", the child of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father - the first such first-generation hybrid ever found

Life expectancy has grown massively in recent decades, but in the UK the gains are starting to ease off. Could dementia, austerity, or something else be to blame?

Before scientists can capture and recreate the fusion process that powers the sun and stars to produce virtually limitless energy on Earth, they must first learn to control the hot plasma gas that fuels fusion reactions....

Swansea University scientists working at CERN have published a study detailing a breakthrough in antihydrogen research.

A long bone unearthed in Denisova Cave in Siberia is providing new proof that Denisovans and Neanderthals mated.

A new study EEG study reveals human and monkey attention pulses in and out four times per second.

Researchers have identified the sensor protein responsible for hearing and balance.

Researchers report the brain re-evaluates the interpretation of speech sounds the moment subsequent sounds are heard in order to update interpretations as necessary.

A team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota has developed a new material that could potentially improve the efficiency of computer processing and memory. The researchers have filed a patent on the material w...

Artificial intelligence is helping to find the thousands of lead pipes responsible for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan

Sunlight can transfer energy to asteroids and make them spin so fast they break up. Understanding how they break could help us protect Earth from asteroid impacts