Cities in low- and middle-income countries are experiencing a surge in urban heat island effects, driven by unplanned urban ...

South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world. The country's per-capita expenditure Gini coefficient, a ...

Where you work affects your risk of dying by suicide. For example, loggers, musicians and workers in the oil and gas ...

Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it ...

At long last, a unified theory combining gravity with the other fundamental forces—electromagnetism and the strong and weak ...

Cells have a mailing system of sorts. They can release tiny molecular balls, called extracellular vesicles (EVs), that ...

In recent years, Canadians have been subjected to both severe wildfire smoke and extreme heat events, as evidenced by the ...

Domestication has made cats and dogs more diverse, but also curiously alike—with serious implications for their health and ...

Origami—the Japanese art of folding paper—could be the next frontier in innovative materials. Practiced in Japan since the ...

Scientists in the United States have created a new snake antivenom using the blood of a man who deliberately built up ...

Intensive farming is one of the biggest factors contributing to biodiversity loss. While prior research has focused primarily ...

Some red algae exhibit structural color that gives their growth tips a blue hue and the rest of their bodies, including their ...