The origins of the High Plains landscape

Starting at the eastern foot of the Rocky Mountains in the Midwest United States, the dramatic…

Clementine Ford reveals the fragility behind ‘toxic masculinity’ in book

In Boys Will Be Boys, Australia's most prominent contemporary feminist, Clementine Ford, works toward dismantling the…

Efforts to make science relevant to diverse populations inadvertently create divisions, study finds

Around the turn of the 20th century, U.S. educators widely considered certain populations less educated, less…

ATLAS Experiment releases new study of ultra-rare B-meson decay

The study of hadrons—particles that combine quarks to form mesons or baryons—is a vital part of…

A mechanism of color pattern formation in ladybird beetles

Many ladybirds have attractive color patterns consisting of black and red. This prominent color pattern is…

Leica revives iconic Soviet Zenit camera

German camera manufacturer Leica is reviving the legendary Soviet Zenit camera more than 30 years after…

Science learns from its mistakes too

Scientific studies should always be published irrespective of their result. That is one of the conclusions…

Is student debt keeping Americans away from marriage?

Having a student loan could influence whether America's young adults first union after college is marriage…

Study demonstrates new mechanism for developing electronic devices

The prevalence of electronic devices has transformed life in the 21st century. At the heart of…

Zika and yellow fever—vaccines without eggs

A team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems…