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XICC_LHCb discovery (00006) Credit: Copyright CERN Today at the EPS Conference on High Energy Physics in Venice, the LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider has...

A UCLA study has identified changes in brain regions that may hold a key to why some people prefer order and organization and others...

Brown long-eared bat swooping in for a tasty treat. Credit: Prof Anders Hedenström Bats catch food 'on the wing' without touching the ground, but how do...

California spotted owls in Yosemite National Park benefit from a habitat mosaic created by fire. Credit: S. Eyes Fire is a crucial part of the forest...

An area burned at low severity in the Rim Fire, as photographed in the summer of 2014. Credit: Reed Crane, U.S. Forest Service Forest composition, ground...

The key to the willow warblers' differing migration patterns probably lies in their genes. Credit: Max Lundberg The genetic make-up of a willow warbler determines where...

The Canadian boreal forest is dominated by the 10-year snowshoe hare cycle. Credit: University of Toronto Scarborough Rudy Boonstra has been doing field research in Canada's...

The findings of this study shed new light on how stress, depression and other mental states can alter organ function, and show that there...

Artist's impression of a T-type brown dwarf. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Our galaxy could have 100 billion brown dwarfs or more, according to work by an...

It takes just a few seconds to choose a cookie over an apple and wreck your diet for the day. Credit: Jeff Grabmeier It takes just...

A hot Jupiter at various phases of its orbit. The sizes of the star and planet and the separations between them are to scale...