Astronomers detect most distant fast radio burst to date

An international team has spotted a remote blast of cosmic radio waves lasting less than a…

People experiencing news fatigue are less likely to be voters, finds survey

In a comprehensive analysis of news consumption across the globe, a recent report by Reuters concluded…

Understanding the barriers college students face to healthy leisure activities

College students face different, often co-occurring barriers that may prevent them from participating in healthy leisure…

DNA shows where Washington culvert replacements helped spawning salmon

To help struggling salmon populations, the state of Washington is legally required to replace hundreds of…

Growing plants in space

As NASA plans missions to the moon and Mars, a key factor is figuring out how…

Native lands lack clean water protections, but more tribes are taking charge

Across the roughly 1,300 square miles of the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwest Minnesota, tribal…

Psychologist examines genesis of online groups of sexually embittered men

What happens when lonely men, embittered by a sense of failure in the sexual marketplace, find…

The combination of oxygen and methane could reveal the presence of life on another world

In searching for life in the universe, a field known as astrobiology, scientists rely on Earth…

Scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don't have free will

Before epilepsy was understood to be a neurological condition, people believed it was caused by the…

Scientists release 10-meter-resolution cotton map of Xinjiang, China

Scientists from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together…