A new study analyzing Mount Everest expeditions spanning more than a century has found that death rates among climbers have declined significantly in recent decades – despite a dramatic increase ...

The interplanetary comet 3I/ATLAS is remarkably rich in a specific type of water that contains deuterium, meaning it came ...

The Centre for Research in Robotics and Underwater Technologies (CIRTESU) at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló has ...

Scientists have mapped in unprecedented detail the structure of Vibrio bacteria, which can cause life-threatening infections linked to antibiotic resistance.

Eastern Africa’s Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

Scientists at the University of Melbourne have uncovered for the first time how Australia’s iconic Twelve Apostles were ...

The top ocean predators during the Cretaceous were primarily giant marine reptiles and sharks, or so researchers have thought. Now, a new study suggests colossal “kraken-like” octopuses once hunted ...

Just as major global powers are retreating from climate finance commitments, a new empirical study provides, for the first time, evidence of a direct link between climate finance and a lower risk of ...

Reed, an invasive alien plant that is abundant on the banks of many rivers, ponds and canals, can encourage the growth of ...

If you think you need to ‘go hard’ at the gym to make your muscles stronger, think again! New research at ECU has revealed strenuous exercise and soreness is not needed to improve muscle size, ...

Spearheaded by patient-scientist Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel at the Broad Institute, a new drug candidate designed to slow the progression of prion disease is entering a phase 1 clinical trial, ...

UCLA researchers created a single-cell map of the developing human neocortex in Down syndrome during a critical window of prenatal brain development, finding that the condition alters the ...