For a long time, most scientists believed that early human hunter-gatherer societies were mostly equal, with little hierarchy ...

Before plants evolved, vegetative life consisted of primitive green algae living in the sea. Like plants, these algae survived by performing photosynthesis, turning sunlight into energy. However, ...

Exploring Earth's deep interior is a far bigger challenge than exploring the solar system. While we have traveled 25 billion km into space, the deepest we have ever gone below our feet is just over 12 ...

The invention of tiny devices capable of precisely controlling the direction and behavior of light is essential to the ...

New research led by a University of Oregon ecologist suggests that fire was historically more frequent in the Douglas fir ...

Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science (NINS, Japan) and SOKENDAI have demonstrated a more than 2000% voltage-induced enhancement of near-field nonlinear optical responses. To achieve this ...

"Many women tell me they want to have a man in their life, but they are no longer willing to be the only person giving in the ...

An agreement on the third implementation phase of Destination Earth (DestinE), the European Commission's initiative to ...

Scientists have created an AI model that forecasts moderate heat stress—a major precursor to coral bleaching—at sites along ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba examined how artificial intelligence (AI) is represented in fictional media, including films, animation, literature, and games. Published in the journal AI & ...

A study on tectonic plates that converge on the Tibetan Plateau has shown that Earth's fault lines are far weaker and the ...

A study by UC Riverside and USC education scholars found that Black and Latino teens are significantly more adept than their ...