A team of geophysicists at the University of California, Berkeley, proposes that Martian oceans originated several hundred million years earlier than thought,...
A groundbreaking new technique for studying lake sediments can tell scientists more about the frequency and intensity of past and future insect epidemics,...
A team of researchers from Lancaster University and the Universities of Edinburgh and Leeds, UK, forecasts a 15% drop in the average number of lightning...
A Yale University-led study suggests that abrupt shifts in climate caused by massive volcanic eruptions helped to trigger poorly understood revolts —...
A new study led by University of Adelaide researcher Jeremy Austin traces the history of Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) populations over the last 30,000 years.
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A team of researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of Colorado Boulder and NASA has used a world-class computer model...
Growing global temperatures may be playing a part in the rising numbers of people developing type 2 diabetes, suggests new research from the Leiden University...
A team of researchers led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has found evidence that a comet hit the Earth at the same time a mysterious release of carbon...
Culex pipiens f. molestus, the mosquito species unique to the London Underground. Image credit: Walkabout12 / CC BY-SA.
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According to a new study published in the journal Current Biology, cephalopods’ numbers have increased in the world’s oceans over the past six decades.
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Neanderthals showed signs of nutritional stress during periods of extreme cold, according to a new study published in the July 2016 issue of the Journal...
In a study published online in the journal Science, paleontologists from China and the United States report the discovery of a diverse primate fauna from...
According to a new research published in the journal Nature Communications, ichthyosaurs were driven to extinction by climate change and their own failure...
A new study in the journal Science shows that two alpine bumblebee species have responded to a decline in flowering due to warming temperatures by evolving...
Warming temperatures are causing mosquitoes in Greenland to grow faster and emerge earlier, boosting their population and threatening the caribou they...
A new study of North American canid fossils published in the journal Nature Communications suggests that the evolutionary path of the family Canidae (dogs...
According to a new study published online in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, massive aquifers underneath deserts contain approximately one trillion...
A group of scientists headed by Dr Jeremy Kerr from the University of Ottawa, Canada, has discovered that climate change is rapidly shrinking the area...
