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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...

Combination immunotherapy shrank melanoma that has spread to the brain in more than half of the patients in a clinical trial.

Electrical stimulation of the brain and spinal cord may help treat the symptoms of rare movement disorders called neurodegenerative ataxias, according to a new study.

Researchers describe for the first time how one type of RNA polymerase gets stalled by DNA lesions caused by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light.

Two new studies have unveiled how a peculiar molecule impacts how antibody-producing cells develop and function as well as how normal melanocytes progress to melanoma malignancy.

Rapid-onset gender dysphoria might spread through groups of friends and may be a harmful coping mechanism, a new study suggests, but more research is needed.

The ancient city of Samarra was famed for its palaces. Now we know they were made with unique glass found nowhere else.

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

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

The way our head and neck are positioned during a head-on impact may significantly affect the risk of concussion -- but tensed up neck muscles seem to offer far less protection.

Researchers have uncovered a destructive mechanism at the molecular level that causes a well-known phenomenon associated with obesity: leptin resistance. They found that mice fed a high-fat diet produce an enzyme named M...

In most of Europe, the rates of smoking initiation among older teens have declined since the 1970s, while 'new smoker' rates among younger teens have risen in recent years.

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.

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?

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

D-Wave Systems today published a milestone study demonstrating a topological phase transition using its 2048-qubit annealing quantum computer. This complex quantum simulation of materials is a major step toward reducing ...