People who contribute least in crowdsourcing can do the most to improve a public good, says study

Whether talking about the office kitchen, hiking trails or ratings on Yelp, there are always people…

Single gene controls Corn Belt weed's resistance to soil-applied herbicide, study finds

Waterhemp, the aggressive weed threatening Corn Belt crop production, is throwing curveballs once again, according to…

Zen and the art of mitochondrial maintenance: The machinery of death makes a healthier life

While we all aspire for a long lifespan, what is most coveted is a long period…

New analysis finds strong El Niño could bring extra floods this winter

An analysis by NASA’s sea level change science team finds that if a strong El Niño…

Workplace protections needed for menstruation and menopause, says paper

As the Australian government announces a Senate inquiry into the impact of menopause on women’s health,…

Picking up the statistics of good vibrations in Brillouin-Mandelstam scattering

Experiments with single-photon detectors have revealed surprising statistics of light created via interactions with high-frequency sound…

A new cheating technique has professors outmatched—and no, it's not ChatGPT

In the changing world of education, online academic resources such as Chegg.com have become the go-to…

'Superbugs' with hypervirulence and carbapenem resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae

A new bacterial threat, the carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (CR-hvKP), is rapidly spreading in clinical environments…

Children were neglected during the pandemic. There are important lessons still to be learned, says analysis

Children are still suffering the consequences of official neglect during the first ‘shock period’ of the…

Astronomers are hoping to detect gravitational waves coming from supernova 1987A

A supernova explosion is a cataclysmic explosion that marks the violent end of a massive star’s…