In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ancient humans wielded an array of stone tools—known collectively as ...

Much previous work in the social sciences has involved researchers—often but not always from the Global North—collecting data from rural communities in the Global South on a wide range of topics from ...

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar on 28 March 2025 caused widespread damage and over 3,800 fatalities, and also ...

Does keeping authors' identities secret during peer review make the process more fair? A new large-scale field study, led by ...

Electricity flows through wires to deliver power, but it loses energy as it moves, delivering less than it started with. But ...

A new generation of CRISPR technology developed at UNSW Sydney offers a safer path to treating genetic diseases like sickle ...

We live in an age of declining trust in public institutions: parliament, the health and education systems, courts and police ...

A belief that individual actions do make a meaningful difference is among the common factors that motivate people to voluntarily reduce their consumption of single-use plastics (SUP), a Griffith ...

Gotska Sandön has long been regarded as a lonely and desolate place where people only occasionally hunted seals. But recent archaeological investigations reveal a considerably more complex history.

Using new techniques, Yale researchers have demonstrated the ability to use lasers to cool quantized vibrations of sound ...

Researchers at the College of Design and Engineering (CDE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a ...

Scientists have turned a longstanding challenge in electronics—material defects—into a quantum-enhanced solution, paving the ...