Himalayas, most people farm for a living. In the 1980s, they largely transitioned from subsistence-based to market-oriented ...

Researchers at San Diego State University and Michigan State University are shedding new light on how viruses meticulously pack their genetic material — a breakthrough that could help researchers ...

A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will ...

Humans adapt to floods through private measures, early warning systems, emergency preparedness and other solutions. A new attribution study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) ...

In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ancient humans wielded an array of stone tools—known collectively as ...

Much previous work in the social sciences has involved researchers—often but not always from the Global North—collecting data from rural communities in the Global South on a wide range of topics from ...

Does keeping authors' identities secret during peer review make the process more fair? A new large-scale field study, led by ...

Electricity flows through wires to deliver power, but it loses energy as it moves, delivering less than it started with. But ...

A new generation of CRISPR technology developed at UNSW Sydney offers a safer path to treating genetic diseases like sickle ...

We live in an age of declining trust in public institutions: parliament, the health and education systems, courts and police ...

A belief that individual actions do make a meaningful difference is among the common factors that motivate people to voluntarily reduce their consumption of single-use plastics (SUP), a Griffith ...