Past theories have suggested that animals exhibit SSB to increase group cohesion, to signal dominance among a larger group, ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

Nature magazine, a top British weekly scientific journal, retracted a study predicting climate change would cost an annual $38 trillion throughout the next 25 years after its methodology and ...

Even the words we use to express our connection to nature are dwindling as the demands of modern life isolate us from the non-human world, according to a new study by psychologist Miles Richardson of ...

Astronomers from the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) in India and elsewhere have conducted a long-term photometric and spectroscopic study of a young stellar object ...

An experimental medication made from marijuana successfully reduced back pain in a new study, offering further support for the drug’s potential in treating one of the most common forms of chronic pain ...

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Fifty-five heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change, according to a study published Wednesday. California wants to mix hydrogen with gas to ...

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November 1, ...