Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

The ozone layer’s most famous wound opened over Antarctica, but the damage may have started much earlier, and somewhere else ...

GIS Analysis is a useful tool for transportation policy, and this piece applies the GIS-analysis model to railroad grade ...

A study recently published in the journal Nature provides evidence that individual brain cells in the human cortex act as ...

Every few years, the world rediscovers Africa. Sometimes it is because of a famine; at other times, it is because of a coup, a debt crisis, an epidemic, or a migration emergency. The accompanying ...

Fascinating nervous system imaging reveals previously unseen obesity-related nerve damage in mice and humans — and some of it ...

Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an escalating global health crisis being worsened by climate change. Studies of ...

Anyone who speaks more than one language knows the feeling of expressing the same thought through entirely different ...

When and where the next large earthquake will strike remains one of the most difficult questions in geoscience. Researchers from the GFZ Helmholtz Center for Geosciences led by Dr. Sadegh Karimpouli ...

Much of the US just sweltered through the July 4 holiday weekend as an intense heat dome bore down, straining power grids and ...

Inherited retinal degenerations are a diverse group of genetic disorders that result in progressive vision loss. Advances in ...