The dwarf planet Makemake, which chills out in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, might be home to an ice volcano 1.

The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just ...

Born in the United States to a Mexican mum and a UK–US dad, I grew up in Mexico but relocated back to the United States in 2012, aged 16 years old, to finish my education. After completing a ...

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A strain of avian influenza is showing signs of adaptation to human hosts, but there is no evidence that it can transmit from ...

The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre is Canada’s largest integrated cancer research, teaching, and treatment centre, one of the top cancer research centres in the world and is one of the University ...

Six years of observations show that play encourages group efforts and eases tension between adult chimpanzees.

Coming less than a decade after its launch, the studies emerging from the global project are a major achievement. Funders ...

African researchers piloted a slew of innovative, low-cost programmes for addressing the troubling shortage of mental-health ...

Microorganisms on a sample of asteroid are clearly terrestrial — despite strict protocols to avoid contamination.

As soil dries, plants limit water loss by closing tiny apertures called stomata in their leaves. A global analysis reveals ...

Since a schizophrenia drug, the first in decades with an innovative mechanism of action, gained US regulatory approval in ...