Older adults discharged from hospital with a new prescription for a sedative, especially a benzodiazepine or antipsychotic, are at increased risk of falls and other negative consequences, according to ...

A new estimate of insect species globally finds that there may be 8 to 14 million more species than people thought, with few of them discovered.

Researchers at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, have developed a new calculator that estimates a person's risk of developing serious muscle disorders from ...

Two opposing biological pathways balance stem cell maintenance with skin development; topical drug treatments targeting them may treat skin cancers and disorders.

A 100-year-old equation and a fibre-optic cable off the coast of Svalbard led researchers to discover they could detect ...

Great apes may have been laughing with a similar rhythm to modern humans for at least 15 million years, a University of ...

Accounting for atmospheric degradation of levoglucosan is essential for accurate identification of biomass burning sources in ...

A University of Michigan life cycle analysis shows that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and electric vehicles offer significant reductions in lifetime greenhouse gas emissions compared with diesel powertr ...

An international collaboration has discovered two of the lowest-density giant planets ever detected: rare ‘super-puff’ ...

A study has revealed that despite centuries of violent regime changes, medieval Sicily was a genetic ‘melting pot’, where ...

Ultra-light GPS tracking devices have revealed that the Pygmy Falcon operates within an exceptionally small home range while ...

To directly measure pi-pi stacking, the team invented TRIP, a technique that fires a laser onto a sample and records the unique vibrational signals that return. Their test came in the form of a ...