High school GPAs are stronger predictors of college graduation than ACT scores

Students’ high school grade point averages are five times stronger than their ACT scores at predicting…

Red Sea huge source of air pollution, greenhouse gases: study

Hydrocarbon gases bubbling from the bottom of the Red Sea are polluting the atmosphere at a…

How active shooter incidents off campus lead to guns on campus

A new study finds that active shooter incidents off campus and politics are key factors that…

Upper-plate earthquakes caused uplift along New Zealand's Northern Hikurangi Margin

Earthquakes along a complex series of faults in the upper plate of New Zealand’s northern Hikurangi…

Hungry for hutia? Our taste for Bahamas' 'most peaceable rodent' shaped its diversity

The Bahamian hutia, a large Caribbean rodent with a blissed-out disposition, presents a curious case study…

Rethinking land conservation to protect species that will need to move with climate change

All plants and animals need suitable conditions to survive. That means a certain amount of light,…

Crab-shell and seaweed compounds spin into yarns for sustainable and functional materials

Researchers from Aalto University, the University of São Paulo and the University of British Columbia have…

AI could deceive us as much as the human eye does in the search for extraterrestrials

An artificial neural network has identified a square structure within a triangular one in a crater…

Researchers foresee the ongoing use of cash

Are the countries of the Eurozone ready to drop cash in hand? In light of a…

Second of its kind 'sharpshooter' leafhopper from Brazil 'strikes' with its colouration

When, in 2014, Brazilian researchers stumbled across a never-before-seen red-eyed leafhopper feeding inside the rosettes of…