Roughly 50,000 years ago, a kangaroo unlike any alive today lived in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea. First discovered ...

When archaeologists find adults and children buried together in medieval graves, it is often assumed that they were members ...

A new study led by MIT researchers could drive the development of more energy-efficient digital displays—such as flat-screen TVs, augmented and virtual reality headsets, smartphone screens, medical ...

A new study in PLOS Biology of 133 species of flies, mosquitoes and their relatives shows that most species fly in surprisingly similar ways. Physical and aerodynamic laws shape the evolution of their ...

Research simulates real-life multitasking performance to assess potential differences between men and women. When coordinating five different tasks, men ignored the conversational task more than twice ...

China successfully recaptured the first stage of a rocket after a launch on Friday in a breakthrough for the country's space ...

How do bees make group decisions without a leader? Math experts have determined that the best strategy is for a few to assume ...

Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for ...

Danqing Liu from Eindhoven University of Technology explores how interactions with digital systems can be improved through ...

Proving that one quantum measurement is more powerful than another has long been difficult. Physicists from Heinrich Heine ...

Mississippi State scientists are building on two decades of irrigation research to identify production practices that help growers save water while improving crop yields.

A large cemetery containing the lavishly adorned remains of unidentified high-status individuals dating from around 2,000 ...