Physical aggression by young people toward their parents occurs quite frequently – yet the subject remains taboo. Victims ...

Improvements in public health have allowed humankind to survive to older ages than ever before, but, for many people, these ...

An international team has described Foskeia pelendonum, a tiny Early Cretaceous ornithopod from Vegagete (Burgos, Spain), measuring barely half a meter long. Led by Paul-Emile Dieudonné (Nation ...

Dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries in physics. But could neutrinos spell the end of an era for dark matter ...

Not all minerals are beauty queens. But often, the ones that aren't as interesting visually have a lot more to them than ...

Prior to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, Americans lived in communities awash with lead from industrial sources, paint, water supply pipes and, most significantly, ta ...

Concrete is the world’s most widely used building material – second only to water. Globally, more than four billion tonnes of ...

From afar, science is a marvelous thing, a humming engine of discovery that simultaneously reveals the wonders of our world ...

The study, published in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, used data from fossils laid down 150 million years ago in the Morrison Formation*, in the United States, to map o ...

How do you translate ancient Palmyrene script from a Roman tombstone? How many paired tendons are supported by a specific ...

If severe DNA damage is not repaired, the consequences for the health of cells and tissues are dramatic. A study led by ...

Newton proved that white light was made of all the colours of rainbow by recombining the spectrum. He used a second prism and ...