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 ...

Gotska Sandön has long been regarded as a lonely and desolate place where people only occasionally hunted seals. But recent archaeological investigations reveal a considerably more complex history.

Using new techniques, Yale researchers have demonstrated the ability to use lasers to cool quantized vibrations of sound ...

Researchers at the College of Design and Engineering (CDE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a ...

Scientists have turned a longstanding challenge in electronics—material defects—into a quantum-enhanced solution, paving the ...

Ursa Major III, the faintest object in our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more than 30,000 light years. Until ...

A very rare and apparently very confused subtropical wood stork somehow found its way to the wilds of Wisconsin.

Apatite. Rhymes with appetite, and fittingly, plays a vital role in the very act of eating. Found in teeth and bones, apatite ...

Features of spaceflight such as gravitational changes and circadian rhythm disruption—not to mention radiation—take a toll on ...

A new study maps the planetary boundary of "functional biosphere integrity" in spatial detail and over centuries. It finds ...