Besides humans, very few mammals receive care from their fathers. But when species do, it may benefit their children. New ...

The greenhouse effect was discovered more than 150 years ago and the first scientific paper linking carbon dioxide levels in ...

Seek your lover in the daytime, says Ovid. Be careful of the night. You won't choose the right person if you're drunk. And ...

If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular ...

Every year, more than one million scientific articles are published in the life sciences. Two-thirds of them include ...

Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the ...