The findings, while limited, point in one direction: Gun control can save lives.

The feared demise of bumblebees could bring the evolution of the plants they pollinate grinding to a halt – leaving them vulnerable to new diseases and other threats – a new study suggests. Researchers in Switzerland tested what happened when field m ...

Make America great again. Clearly the message resonated. In 2016, prior to the presidential election, the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan group, published its annual American Values Survey. It revealed 51 percent of the population f ...

It comes as no surprise that cancer drugs cost a lot. Some years ago, researchers even coined the term “financial toxicity” to describe the distress caused by cancer prices. Now, a new study shows that the prices for the top 10 cancer drugs are 42 pe ...

Here’s a frustrating fact for anyone who has been prescribed medication or therapy for depression: your doctor doesn’t know what treatment will work for you. The two main treatments are cognitive behavioral therapy, a talk-centered approach that gets ...

In this first ever observed case of ‘river piracy’, the Slims river vanished in just four days as intense glacier melt suddenly diverted its flow into another watercourse.

Most people are familiar with white noise, that static sound of an air conditioner that lulls us to sleep by drowning out any background noise. Except technically, the whirl of a fan or hum of the AC isn’t white noise at all. Many of the sounds we as ...

Antibiotic resistance could make c-sections, transplants and chemotherapy too dangerous to perform, warns the World Health Organisation.

A special microbe - called SAFR-032 - only shows up in NASA's ultra clean rooms. In space, its spores have a unique survival tactic, building up layers of cells to use as shields that in turn protect their DNA. When these tiny survivors return f ...

The "undulatas asperitas" is the first new cloud to be added to the International Cloud Atlas in half a century.

Mapping the entire nervous system of the sea squirt tadpole larva -- only the second animal to be analysed in full -- reveals that even small brains lead to big knowledge gains.

It’s a puzzle why neo-nationalism has become such a force. Why now? Why has the effect been so powerful, and yet varied both across countries and within them? More importantly, why does Canada seem to be immune to this worrying trend, and how can we ...

Billionaire Larry Tanenbaum has announced a major donation that will not just fund neuroscience, but support a new way of doing it. With the help of Tanenbaum’s gift of $20 million CAD (£12million), the ‘Neuro’, the Montreal Neurological Institute an ...

In 2001, NASA physicist Robert Lang quit his job to focus on his one true passion: creating original origami designs. With a deep understanding of mathematics and materials, Lang's folding designs have now been incorporated into everything from ...

The abortion pill could revolutionise abortion access. The pill is safe and easy to take, and it could give American women unprecedented reproductive autonomy. So, why have US politicians spent over a decade making sure it doesn't?

How WWI food propaganda forever changed the way Americans eat.

To make this golden coat, The North Face teamed up with Spiber, a Japanese company making synthetic spider silk.

Many professionals define addiction as a pathological, problematic disorder. And because romantic love is a positive experience under many circumstances (i.e. not harmful), researchers remain largely unwilling to officially categorize romantic love a ...

A new US program is giving out cardboard bassinets to new mothers to encourage safe sleeping. Jernica Quiñones, a mother of five, was the first parent in New Jersey to get her free baby box — a portable, low-tech bassinet made of laminated cardboard. ...

Picking up a quest abandoned by Big Pharma, academic labs are using new disruptive technology to develop contraceptive drugs for men.