Psychologists tested whether various cues to physical attractiveness are redundant or signal unique information about a ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

The ReproSci project retrospectively analyzed the reproducibility of 1006 claims from 400 papers published between 1959 and 2011 in the field of Drosophila immunity. This project attempts to provide a ...

Scientific progress depends on results that can be repeated – yet across disciplines, too many experiments fail that test.

At first glance, this mammal looks like a horse gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, Chalicotherium is far from a botched ...

Learn more about the gene linked to the evolutionary loss of human tails, and how, in rare cases, some people are still born ...

The most celebrated early successes of artificial intelligence were computers beating human champions in games such as chess and Go. Today we are all playing games against AI. The price ...

A retrospective cohort study suggested that people with color blindness may have a higher risk of mortality from bladder ...

In truth, it is not a paradox. The animals involved all seem perfectly eager participants in heterosexual behaviour, as well, so their reproduction is not compromised. It is, though, a puzzle—for ...

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

Research has already shown the psychedelic drug psilocybin eases depression, PTSD, and anxiety. Now researchers are working ...

The recent sequence of failures involving the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) has unsettled India’s space and strategic community in a way that routine launch mishaps usually do not. The concern ...