Rapid development has been shrinking the jungle habitat of the critically endangered species, and fatal conflicts with people ...

This rapid urban expansion has exacerbated environmental vulnerabilities, such as flooding, landslides and extreme heat. This ...

A growing movement claims social media is “addictive,” and lawmakers are treating it as settled science. But the evidence is ...

According to Mattar Al Tayer, director general and chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the RTA, the project is ...

Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell are fueling the University of Texas at Austin’s medical research ambitions with a $750 ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of ...

Since 1968, world population has soared from 3.5 billion to over 8 billion, life expectancy at birth has increased from 56 ...

One of the most comprehensive studies ever of flood risk has determined that more than 17 million people in eight cities ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...