Now, though, they’re showing up about 1,000 miles south in Ecuador. “Historically, observing female Eastern Pacific ...

It’s been more than 40 years since the core meltdown of the Chornobyl nuclear reactor in what’s now Ukraine. Yet, its ...

According to a team of botanists from Tel Aviv University who uncovered this odd phenomenon, the secret is in the way the plants receive information from light. Your light receptors are located on the ...

Of course, not all loneliness is the same. The researchers distinguished between the students who experienced emotional ...

Whenever you’re actively performing a task—say, lifting weights at the gym or taking a hard exam—the parts of your brain required to carry it out become “active” when neurons step up their electrical ...

When a whale dies and sinks to the bottom of the ocean, its carcass becomes a banquet for smaller marine organisms, supplying food for decades. It’s a perfect example of the circle of life—and also a ...

Are you tired of AI doomsaying? Whether it’s AI researchers and CEOs warning that AI may kill us all (but only after vaporising most of the good jobs), or critics saying that AI will drive us over a ...

If you’re someone who likes to read the ingredients on food labels, lecithin may be familiar to you. Usually derived from soy or eggs, it’s a fatty substance that’s commonly used as an emulsifying ...

Ever wondered why a bad night’s sleep can leave you irritable, anxious or sad? Poor sleep affects our emotions, but its timing also plays a role. Our circadian rhythms are nearly 24-hour cycles that ...

A University of Cambridge linguist has uncovered a treasure trove containing the earliest known recordings of Creole language and analyzed them for the first time in a study published in Language ...

Imagine opening a history book and finding several chapters torn out. This was what geologists looking into the rock records of Earth’s past discovered on several continents in the 1870s. They dubbed ...