The role of megafaunal exploitation in early human evolution remains debated. Occasional use of large carcasses by early hominins has been considered by some as opportunistic, possibly a fallback ...

Objectives There is a lack of knowledge about whether occupational exposures increase the risk of emphysema, especially in ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

Carnegie’s new Student Access and Earnings Classification has stirred up controversy among community college advocates.

Recently, a research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a ...

Hurricane Melissa’s powerful winds and drenching rains devastated Jamaica. But is its wrath a sign that we need a new ...

The governing body for New York high school athletics has adopted new, statewide criteria for classifying non-public schools for competition in sectional and state playoffs. At the New York State ...

The rapidly growing field of research on chiral phonons is giving researchers new insights into the fundamental behaviors and structures of materials. The chirality of phonons could pave the way for ...

Although experts generally agree that populist political leaders or parties display high levels of anti-elitism, definitions of populism vary. We use three measures to classify populist parties: ...

The sun is not a static, tranquil sphere of gas, but an active, turbulent star with magnetic fields that twist and snap in powerful eruptions. Among the most striking and energetic of these eruptions ...

Global plastics production and exports have expanded rapidly over the past seven decades, with countries such as the U.S., ...

Dreams of tiny living, across Australia, are being shattered as local councils struggle to classify and regulate, tiny homes. For one Perth woman, her dream has become little more than a $130,000 ...