Scientists caution against a reliance on mechanical devices to clear water bodies of plastic

An international group of scientists has cautioned against reliance on mechanical cleanup devices as a means…

Social-behavioral findings can be highly replicable, six-year study by four labs suggests

Roughly two decades ago, a community-wide reckoning emerged concerning the credibility of published literature in the…

Researchers generate live-birth chimeric monkey using embryonic stem cells

A new study has reported the generation of a live-birth chimeric monkey using a high contribution…

Study finds Greenland's glacier retreat rate has doubled over past two decades

Greenland’s thousands of peripheral glaciers have entered a new and widespread state of rapid retreat, a…

Subglacial water could extend the classical habitable zone of exoplanets, says study

Professor Amri Wandel, from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has unveiled research that promises to redefine our…

Ancient Egyptian burial reveals ovarian teeth in oldest example of teratoma

A case study led by Southern Illinois University, Illinois, has described the earliest discovery of an…

Wikipedia pays more attention to events in richer countries, say data scientists

A trio of data scientists, two with Graz University, in Germany, the other with the University…

Experiment suggests taking a short break from social media results in mixed bag of feelings

A pair of psychologists at Durham University, in the U.K., has found that when heavy social…

Atom-by-atom solvation recorded for the first time

A team of chemists and physicists at Aarhus University, in Denmark, working with a colleague from…

'Miniature' mountain creature with 'squeaker'-like call discovered as new species

A “squeaker”-like sound pierced the air of a mountain forest in Rwanda. The call came from…