Climate change and prehistoric human populations: Study finds eastward shift of settlement areas at end of last Ice Age
A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ...
Would you join the resistance if stuck in an authoritarian regime? Here's the psychology behind such a move
Most of us like to believe we would have opposed the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany. We may even like to imagine that we ...
'Liberation Day' tariffs are the highest in decades. An economist explains how that could hurt the US
President Donald Trump unveiled a sweeping new tariff plan on April 2, 2025, to reshape U.S. trade and boost domestic ...
Timid tinkerers: Shy mice are more persistent problem-solvers, study finds
Why do some animals solve problems while others don't? The new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, ...
Lessons from El Salvador for US university leaders facing attacks from presidential administration
Even before President Donald Trump took office, university presidents expressed concern about the impact of his agenda on ...
When a black hole winks at you: Variability identified in supermassive black hole in Andromeda galaxy
A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...
Intriguing excess of top-quark pairs hints at discovery of smallest composite particle
The CMS collaboration at CERN has observed an unexpected feature in data produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which ...
Australia and New Zealand are plagued by 'tall poppy syndrome'—but would a cure be worse than the disease?
The original tall poppies bloomed in the garden of Tarquin the Proud, last king of Rome. To communicate that his enemies ...
Off-key beginnings: Baby lemurs sing out of tune, just like human children
A study led by primatologist Dr. Chiara De Gregorio from the University of Warwick has found that Madagascar's singing lemurs ...
Bizarre-looking dinosaur challenges what we know about the evolution of fingers
Oviraptorosaurs are weird dinosaurs that look a bit like flightless birds. But these ancient animals aren't just ...
Smoke from US fires linked to 20,000 premature deaths and $200 billion in health damages in 2017
Since the end of the 20th century, air pollution from most U.S. sources has decreased, but emissions from wildland fires have ...