Trains carry people and goods at remarkable speeds, but they also send waves through the ground. These vibrations can travel ...

Plastic medical tubing is often treated as an inert part of modern healthcare: a transparent conduit carrying medicines, nutrients and ...

In the steep valleys of southwestern China, a landslide does not need to bury a river permanently to create a ...

Drone-Mounted Lidar Offers a Fast New Window Into Forest Biodiversity As biodiversity collapses under pressure from land-use change, climate-driven disturbances, ...

A hybrid nanomaterial that combines gallium nitride, iron oxide and the electrically active polymer polypyrrole has shown an unusually wide ...

For young children growing up in English-speaking Australia, learning a family language can involve far more than memorizing vocabulary or ...

As governments around the world become more centralized, elections less competitive and civil liberties more restricted, researchers have asked a ...

A large South Korean study of older adults has found that longer cumulative use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs)—widely prescribed ...

A 12-day course of an experimental hormone treatment was followed by improvements in sleep, physical restlessness, body weight and eating-disorder ...

Stronger Mental-Health Policies in Schools Linked to Lower Academic Pressure—but Not Better Overall Well-Being Schools that place a stronger emphasis ...