By their eighth birthday, an estimated 9 in 10 New Zealand children will have experienced some form of serious adversity.

For millennia, farming in Switzerland did not reduce plant diversity but helped increase it, University of Basel researchers have shown in a detailed reconstruction covering the past 7,000 years. Only ...

Many parts of Australia have already broken early winter maximum and minimum temperature records. In southern Australia, ...

Peering far into the distant, high-redshift universe, the James Webb telescope has discovered an abundance of small red ...

Archaeologists have long pictured prehistoric hunters taking down mammoths and other megafauna using the atlatl, a handheld spear-throwing device that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity and ...

For nearly half a century, scientists have known that malaria parasites force their way into human red blood cells through a ring-shaped structure called the moving junction. What no one could work ...

Older people are defying stereotypes of aging by playing walking soccer, research from Cardiff University shows. Walking soccer is advertised as an accessible sport that provides a safe, sociable and ...

Fighting along key transport routes pushes up food prices in areas far from the conflict itself, according to a new study.

Honey bees infected with a gut parasite smell different, which could allow bee colonies to detect disease and influence ...

Forecasters expect the El Niño now underway in the tropical Pacific to strengthen into a strong or very strong climate driver later this year.

Working from home could improve family well-being, gender equality, fertility and staff retention, but only if fathers can ...

How does a stripy tree snail hide from hungry birds? The Hypselostyla camelopardalis from the Philippines and Reinia variegata from Japan have both evolved a form of dynamic camouflage to survive.