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People can intuitively sense how biodiverse a forest is just by looking at photos or listening to sounds, and their gut feelings surprisingly line up with what scientists measure.

Long-tailed macaques given short videos were glued to scenes of fighting--especially when the combatants were monkeys they knew--mirroring the human draw to drama and familiar faces. Low-ranking individuals watched most intently, perhaps for self ...

Creatine isn't just for gym buffs; Virginia Tech scientists are using focused ultrasound to sneak this vital energy molecule past the blood-brain barrier, hoping to reverse devastating creatine transporter deficiencies. By momentarily opening ...

Losing weight isn't always winning at health, say experts challenging the long-standing obsession with BMI and dieting. New evidence shows that most people with higher body weight can't sustain long-term weight loss through lifestyle changes--and the ...

Less than a quarter of us hit WHO activity targets, but a new UCL study suggests the trick may be matching workouts to our personalities: extroverts thrive in high-energy group sports, neurotics prefer private bursts with breaks, and everyone sees .. ...

Midlife sleep habits may matter more than previously thought. A large study finds that poor sleep, alongside high blood pressure and nicotine use, sharply increases the risk of heart problems in menopausal women yet only 1 in 5 score well on overall ...

A groundbreaking collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University has resurrected a nearly forgotten 1938 experiment that may have quietly sparked the age of fusion energy. Arthur Ruhlig, a little-known physicist, first observed signs ...

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized "pebbles" swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ingredients of planets already stretching to Neptune-like orbits. Using the UK's e-MERLIN radio array, the PEBBLeS project .. ...

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way's vast, super-hot Fermi bubbles--structures thought to be created by a recent, violent outburst from the galaxy's core. Because ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"--long thought to be completely disordered--is actually sprinkled with tiny crystals, changing our fundamental understanding of ice in the cosmos. These micro-crystals, ...