Science

After their transplants, the researchers followed the volunteers for two years. They concluded that the implants were safe to use...

Oyster reefs once carpeted much of the seafloor, filtering water, stabilizing shorelines and providing habitats for a vast array of...

A large study tracking women in the UK finds that vegetarians have a higher risk of breaking a hip compared...

And co-benefits make a lot of sense: People might reasonably feel more empowered to affect their own health than the...

Conventional testing can underestimate a student’s learning ability. Sociocultural barriers, test anxiety and differences in rates of brain development can...

From dried-up rivers and peatlands to burned-out habitats, the extreme dry conditions across much of England are squeezing everything from...

When you go on a road trip, you pack snacks and drinks and make sure you have good music to...

Jim Lovelock (never ‘James’) is remembered as the father of the Gaia hypoth-esis: the idea that Earth is a self-regulating...

From the exceedingly big to the unfathomably small, cosmologists are trying to unravel a bizarre set of figures that may...

Hopes that it could be useful for treating people with mild illness have also proved unfounded. In June, a trial...

Barred from her lab by pandemic restrictions, behavioral ecologist Daniela Rößler caught local jumping spiders and kept them in clear...

Nearly half of the lightning strikes in northern California over the past three decades occurred on days with little to...

The Democrats’ new climate bill, which was passed by the US Senate on Sunday, has been described as “transformative” and...

Few biological facts seem as irrevocable as brain death. It has long been assumed that when we die, our neurons...

News of a $190 million cryptocurrency theft emerged this week, despite cryptocurrencies being designed to be unhackable. Here's the low-down...

By the early ’90s, ecologists had amassed enough time-series data sets on species populations and enough computing power to test...