Opinion: More aid to consumers urgently needed

A significant pillar that has prevented more drastic declines in consumer sentiment has been the widespread…

Study: Genes that time juvenile-to-adult transition are triggered by a single protein

Genes that time the transition to adulthood are well-studied in the roundworm C. elegans, and at…

Great apes and COVID-19: Experts raise the alarm for endangered species

Primate experts warn that the global human health emergency of COVID-19 also threatens our closest living…

Coronavirus threatens nearly 20 million African jobs: study

Millions of lost jobs, mounting debt woes and plunging remittances are among the economic hardships African…

Researchers expand search for new state of matter

A recent discovery by University of Arkansas physicists could help researchers establish the existence of quantum…

Younger workers hit harder by coronavirus economic shock in UK and US

Those on low incomes are also more likely to have lost jobs or pay, and less…

Origins of Uranus' oddities explained by Japanese astronomers

The ice giant Uranus’ unusual attributes have long puzzled scientists. All of the planets in the…

Extreme rainfall days in metropolitan Sao Paulo have risen four-fold in seven decades

Extreme rainfall has become increasingly common in metropolitan São Paulo, Brazil. The capital of the state…

A twist connecting magnetism and electronic-band topology

Materials that combine topological electronic properties and quantum magnetism are of high interest for the quantum…

Stronger Atlantic currents drive temperate species to migrate toward the Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean increasingly resembles the Atlantic in its temperature and the species that live there.…