Forming social connections online and via social media reduces how much people engage with and learn from the content posted but significantly boosts their networking performance, according to new ...

A new computational method could dramatically accelerate efforts to map the body's cells in space, according to a study ...

Garlic is not a substance that most people consider an aphrodisiac. It turns out that mosquitoes agree. In fact, a new Yale study finds that garlic also functions as a de facto birth control for ...

With over 60,000 ships passing through the Strait of Gibraltar each year, this stretch between the Atlantic and Mediterranean ...

For decades, the common explanation for why children struggle to read has stayed remarkably consistent. Smart kids read well. Kids who don't simply aren't smart enough. And when children strain over a ...

A study led by researchers at the University of Liège reveals the mechanism by which surfactin, a molecule produced by ...

When most people think about biodiversity in lakes and rivers, they imagine fish, plants, or perhaps birds and amphibians. But beneath the surface exists another world that often goes unnoticed: ...

You probably know that Einstein changed the face of physics with his theory of relativity in his twenties. What you may not ...

There may be an ultraheavy explanation for the mystery surrounding the origins of the highest-energy particles ever observed.

A new study warns that unless atmospheric carbon is reduced immediately, future summers will become even hotter and future ...

Millet has been an important crop in East Asia for much of the Holocene, a period beginning about 11,700 years ago. To better understand how environmental conditions may have shaped the development of ...

The rotor blades that will carry NASA's next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during ...