Virginia Tech researchers have uncovered new evidence that black bear hibernation is governed by a complex interaction between temperature, daylight, ...

A sweeping evolutionary analysis of nearly 700 genera has redrawn the family tree of Neogastropoda, one of the most diverse ...

Chronic low back pain has become one of the world’s most persistent and unevenly treated health problems, and a new ...

A new study is challenging one of the most familiar explanations for the long-term rhythm of the Asian summer monsoon. ...

Malaria parasites do not invade red blood cells by force alone. They use a carefully coordinated molecular system that allows ...

A new study argues that direct air capture could do more than remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere: in the ...

Neonatal encephalopathy has long been treated as a condition that can be sorted into neat clinical categories: mild, moderate or ...

Sepsis can turn the immune system’s emergency response into a source of widespread tissue damage. When infection triggers an uncontrolled ...

The social sciences are facing a scientific identity crisis that increasingly resembles a combat sport. Researchers compete over theories, methods, ...

A vast opening in the Arctic sea ice has long been treated as one of nature’s great contradictions: a region ...