Human populations need at least 2.7 children per woman – a much higher fertility rate than previously believed – to reliably ...

Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else’s.” It’s a joke, but when it comes to the study of consciousness ...

A more efficient and environmentally friendly approach to extracting rare earth elements that power everything from electric ...

President Trump’s first budget request is slated to come out later this spring, but agencies are receiving drafts from the ...

Geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi finally connected the dots between one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history and its source deep beneat ...

President Trump’s first budget request is slated to come out later this spring, but agencies are receiving drafts from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) now — and ...

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It's one of the great boomer vs. millennial debates: Do you have to sort your laundry? It's tedious to pull apart lights and ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence, better known as SETI, has its roots just as much in Cold War politics as it has in human curiosity. That’s the thesis of a new book called Mixed Signals: ...

Scientists and engineers are developing high-performance materials from eco-friendly sources like plant waste. A key component, lignocellulose – found in wood and many plants – can be easily collected ...

Most of us have heard of Schrödinger’s eponymous cat, but it is not the only feline in the quantum physics bestiary. Quantum Cheshire cats may not be as well known, yet their behaviour is even more ...

Researchers found that interactions between depressive symptoms – like sadness, fatigue and a lack of interest – are less ...