Human activity has lessened the resilience of modern coral reefs by restricting the food-fueled energy flow that moves ...

In 1886, chemist W. J. Rendell manufactured the first birth control suppository. It contained a cocoa butter shell for suppositories that melted in the body to release the medication quinine, a drug ...

Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat have secured a place in the mixed doubles semi-finals as the only team to remain undefeated.

Dodds went on to claim Olympic gold as part of Eve Muirhead’s women’s rink, while Mouat skipped the men’s team to silver. Yet Beijing still rankles, making their dominance here more striking. They are ...

Multicellularity is one of the most profound phenomena in biology, and relies on the ability of a single cell to reorganize ...

A group of 6,000-year-old seashells has emerged as the loudest playable sound-producing instruments yet confirmed from ...

Discover how pill bugs breathe with gill-like lungs, why they love damp places, and what happens when they dry out.

The market is worried about BDCs from a credit risk viewpoint, but recent earnings reports and BDC examples show that ...

The planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a different mechanism than the familiar one by which most systems grow ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

Using gold flakes, salt water, and light, scientists have made the universe’s invisible binding forces visible in color. The ...