The tropical oceans are home to the most diverse plankton populations on Earth, where they form the base of marine food chains.
Findings from a new study published in Cell Reports, involving a collaborative effort between researchers at the Luikart Laboratory at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the Weston Laboratory at the University of Vermont, are providing further insight into the neurobiological basis of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and pointing to possible treatments.
An everyday quirk of physics could be an important missing piece in scientists’ efforts to predict the world’s most powerful earthquakes.
Initially considered as a mediator between genes and proteins, RNA has been found to have a more complex role.
With one of the fastest-growing economies and the largest human population, China is arguably the most influential country in the world.
According to the Spanish Journal of Paleontology, the dinosaur extinction was related to the Jenkyns Event, a global event that depleted the world of oxygen.
For the first time since its discovery 130 years ago, one of the most mysterious fossil vertebrates finally has been classified, increasing our possible understanding of the first animals to crawl the Earth.
Pheasants are most likely to be killed by predators on unfamiliar ground, new research shows.
A new study has found that consuming dietary nitrate – the active molecule in beetroot juice – significantly increased muscle force while exercising.
“Ineffective” methods of risk assessment and the processing of items for digital forensic analysis have led to police tensions and are slowing down investigations, a new study warns.
Experiencing three or more concussions is linked with worsened brain function in later life, according to major new research.
A European Task Force involving the University of Exeter has created an evidence-based road map for Brain Health Services, new services designed to support people in keeping their brains healthy and reducing their risk of developing dementia.
In the study of human impact on the environment, there are few negative or stabilising feedbacks on climate change.
Raising sons is an exhausting experience that leaves killer whale mothers far less likely to produce more offspring, new research shows.
The majority of people support robust action being taken to control the spread of harmful misinformation via social media, a major new study reveals.
Incel activity online is evolving to become more extreme as some of the online spaces hosting its violent and misogynistic content are shut down and new ones emerge, a new study shows.
A study led by Northern Arizona University offers new evidence that a common framework to sort bacteria into two lifestyles doesn’t easily apply to bacteria living in wild soil.
Accurate climate models play a critical role in climate science and policy, helping to inform policy- and decision-makers throughout the world as they consider ways to slow the deadly effects of a warming planet and to adapt to changes already in progress.
Leveraging supercomputing power, University of Arizona researchers created simulations of millions of computer-generated "universes" to test astrophysical predictions that have eluded astronomical observations.
The long-running row over Britain’s hen harriers could offer lessons for other conservation conflicts, new research shows.