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Regression models of children’s time with parents and alone—average effect. Source Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. K Cohort, waves 1–6…
Conversing with a friend just once during the day to catch up, joke around or tell them you’re thinking of…
Example Data Gap Area in Marin County. Credit: SHALLOW GROUNDWATER RESPONSE TO SEA-LEVEL RISE: Alameda, Marin, San Francisco, and San…
Concrete is everywhere: in buildings, roads, sidewalks, bridges and foundations for almost every structure imaginable. We make more concrete than…
The European Space Agency has chosen an astronaut with a physical disability for the first time, as one of six…
Labelled pots found in a 2,500-year-old embalming workshop have revealed the plant and animal extracts used to prepare ancient Egyptian…
We’ve long known there was an ancient language that gave rise to English, Bengali and dozens of other tongues –…
Childbirth is a vulnerable experience, both emotionally and physically. Giving birth, whether vaginally or through a cesarean section, creates opportunities…
Steven Strauss was skeptical when he first heard about a poplar tree bioengineered to suck more carbon dioxide out of…
Supermassive black holes that beam powerful jets of matter towards Earth, known as blazars, accelerate particles to extraordinarily high energies…
In the fictional world of The Last of Us, a fungus has destroyed the world. The new hit TV show…
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Twitter was blocked…
Many people enjoy a glass of wine with dinner or a nightcap before bedtime, but how does alcohol affect sleep?Alcohol…
To read the news, the sanctity of everything from college application essays to graduate school tests to medical licensing exams…
Archaeologists in Italy are uncovering a 1,600-year-old burial ground containing the remains of infants, children and sacrificed puppies. Some of the…
An open-source intelligence project is using GPS satellites to track intercontinental ballistic missiles, such as the one tested by North…
Light pollution disrupts animals and has also been linked to human ailments. Bat scientist Johan Eklöf has some useful fixes…
Trapped ions are one of the leading systems to build quantum computers and other quantum technologies. To link multiple such…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It was a cool Thursday morning in Cape Canaveral as the nation’s first space shuttle was…
Around 12,000 years ago, the Neolithic revolution radically changed the economy, diet and structure of the first human societies in…
Overview of the analysis scope. A cradle-to-gate approach is used to assess the recycling technologies from the materials recovery facility…
La Cova des Pas, near the town of Ferreries, is a prehistoric mass burial site with the largest collection of…
This reprocessed colour view of Jupiter’s moon Europa was made from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late…
The threat of climate change permeates this visually stunning, memorable film about a couple living through drought in the Bolivian…
Killer whale mothers are sacrificing their own reproductive prospects to guarantee the future success of their sons.While it’s no surprise…
These images from a new illustrated book chart the long human love affair with orchids, the incredible family of flowering…
The incredible true story of Mars rover Opportunity turns into a moving, inspirational and downright personal tale of a little…
China’s population shrank last year for the first time in more than six decades. The world’s population may have shot…
You won’t need to make a flour roux for your macaroni cheese if you cook your pasta in milk rather…