Researchers at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University discovered that hippocampal place cells in ...

If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Since 1970, 73% of global wildlife has been lost, while the world's population has doubled to 8 billion. Research shows this ...

A rare blanket of heavy snow fell on parts of northeastern Turkey on Friday as other parts of the country battled a growing ...

Understanding randomness is crucial in many fields. From computer science and engineering to cryptography and weather ...

Every year, more than one million scientific articles are published in the life sciences. Two-thirds of them include ...

A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

University of Sydney researchers have harnessed human-made lightning to develop a more efficient method of generating ammonia ...