A "peculiar" ancient relative of the crocodile which experts believe began life on four legs before, in adulthood, it learned ...

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The growing use of AI-generated scientific and science-related content, especially on social media, raises important concerns ...

For the first time, physicists have demonstrated that a material's superconductivity can be altered by coupling it to an in-built, light-confining cavity. In experiments published in Nature, a team ...

Local recreation areas play an important role in reducing stress. In two new publications, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL show how visual ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

In physics, the mesoscale lies between the microscopic and the macroscopic. It is not just the domain of tiny living ...

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is one of the most important processes in our cells to ensure that no faulty or incomplete proteins are produced. Scientists have now identified a central mechanism ...

Payments that enable landowners to rewild ecologically degraded land—in the form of biodiversity credits bought by investors ...

The electronic and magnetic properties of two-dimensional materials both have strong potential for technological applications. Researchers have long assumed that they are distinct phenomena, but ...

A recent report on global tipping points warned that coral reefs face widespread dieback and have reached a point from which they cannot recover.

Researchers in the US have demonstrated how quantum entanglement could be used to detect optical signals from astronomical ...