The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

People who belong to the LGBTIQ+ community say shared housing is fraught with difficulties that go well beyond learning new ...

A decade after Connecticut implemented its 2010 ban on pesticide use on school grounds, a comprehensive three-part series, ...

Researchers from the UAB have shown that sex hormones accumulate in the skin of sharks. This finding opens a new way for the ...

As Earth's largest carbon reservoir, the ocean locks carbon away from the atmosphere. However, scientists still struggle to ...

Hycean worlds are also called ocean worlds. They're planets covered in oceans that also have thick hydrogen atmospheres.

The Robberg is one of southern Africa's most distinctive and widespread stone tool technologies. Robberg tools—which we found ...

Ocean waters are getting greener at the poles and bluer toward the equator, according to an analysis of satellite data ...

Researchers are warning that millions of people around the world aren't being counted in census and survey data, leaving ...

Humans have been reshaping the environment for at least 10,000 years. But the Anthropocene is the name given to the specific ...

Two species of worms have retained remarkably similar patterns in the way they switch their genes on and off despite having ...

Earth's cloud cover is rapidly shrinking and contributing to record-breaking temperatures, according to new research ...