Air Pollution Reduces Global Life Expectancy by More Than One Year, Study Finds

How students view intelligence may affect how they internalize academic stress, study finds (N=499 ninth-grade students)

An asteroid impact 66 million years ago wiped out most life across the planet

In one of the largest and most diverse studies of transgender youths to date, researchers have found when transgender youths are allowed to use their chosen name in places such as work, school…

Scientists develop handheld mass spectrometry system for rapidly and accurately identifying cancerous tissue during surgery

Oil Impairs Ability of Coral Reef Fish to Find Homes and Evade Predators

Nanoparticles and Magnets Offer New, Efficient Method of Removing Oil from Water

Hundreds of proposed hydroelectric dams will significantly harm life in and around the Amazon River by trapping the flow of rich nutrients and modifying the climate from Central America to the Gulf of Mexico

Study of stickleback fish indicates that "immigrants" can be more evolutionarily successful than native resident individuals

94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid State Battery

Two subsequent extinction events following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction likely delayed global ecosystem recovery by millions of years

The evolution of bipedalism in fossil humans can be detected using a key feature of the skull -- a claim that was previously contested but now has been further validated by researchers at Stony Brook University and The University of Texas at Austin.

Exposure to tetracycline, a commonly used antibiotic in beekeeping, drastically perturbs the gut microbiome and elevates mortality in honeybees

Americans who are less health literate tend to be skeptical of new health technologies

A strangely shaped depression on Mars could be a new place to look for signs of life on the Red Planet, according to a study

Nanoparticles embedded with gap junctions allow for more efficient delivery of chemotherapy drugs to cells

Teaching teens that social and personality traits can change helps them cope with social challenges, mitigates stress, and improves academic performance

Computer scientists have developed a new method for producing truly random numbers.

Relationship satisfaction and the energy devoted to keeping a partner are dependent on how the partner compares with other potential mates, a finding that relates to evolution’s stronghold on modern relationship psychology…

Continental arc volcanism tied to shifts in Earth’s climate over tens and hundreds of millions of years.

"Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, the Stanford University School of Medicine and two other institutions have discovered that bacteria have a system that can recognize and disrupt dangerous viruses using a newly identified mechanism involving ribonucleic acid (RNA)."

Some health experts predict that the next big advance in helping overweight people achieve a healthier weight will be to use an individual's genetic data to customize diets and physical activity plans…

Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution

Genders Differ Dramatically in Evolved Mate Preferences: "UT psychologists studied 37 cultures in 33 countries and found men favor mates who are younger and physically attractive, while women seek older mates with good financial prospects…

Researchers for the first time have used seismic sensors to track meltwater flowing through glaciers and into the ocean, an essential step to understanding the future of the world’s largest glaciers as climate changes.

Psychologists have found that children flexibly choose when to imitate and when to innovate the behavior of others, demonstrating that children are precocious social learners.

The ability to learn a foreign language during adulthood is strongly associated with a variation in a particular gene: the FOXP2 gene, which has been previously been implicated in disordered speech and language.