Stories by The Conversation

A new study shows how our bodies react in similar ways to the stress of bullying as they do to an infection

A new particle, possibly a tetraquark, has been detected at physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland

The paper was sound but a libel threat apparently exerted pressure on management at Frontiers in Psychology, suggesting a blow to academic freedom

Despite what some critics say, brain imaging holds plenty of promise for real solutions to treating mental disorders

Cuckoos are known as nature's interlopers, infiltrating other birds' nests and hogging their food. The truth is a bit more complicated

Genetic evidence supports a theory that ancestors of Native Americans lived for 15,000 years on the Bering Land Bridge between Asia and North America until the last ice age ended

Ever since the financial crisis that started in 2007, the business sector has brought more attention to how individual physical reactions can affect the world trading floor

Wind farms can alter the nearby rainfall and temperature, suggesting a need for more comprehensive studies of future energy systems  

A research team has shed more light on how Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine could orbit two stars, which are themselves bound together in an orbital dance

The project unexpectedly struck a pocket of magma and decided not to plug the hole with concrete

Genetics-based research could help identify individual plants that possess superior traits to allow them to survive droughts and temperature shifts

Vets for zoos may seek to castrate hippos to tamp down the animals' aggression, but special techniques are needed to locate the organs

Evidence suggests that the lizards have evolved their dynamic color palette as a means of communication, including information about their willingness to rumble

A strange rectangular area of large seas is reminiscent of the basin and range province of the U.S., shaped by tectonic plates

A new patent for this wearable technology could aid someone who is blind, deaf or needs to be guided through an alien environment

Study subjects who focus on a person’s body rather than his or her mind rank that person as more experienced and more sensitive to emotion and pain

Subjects experience discomfort about unfaithful thoughts and behaviors but downplay it and minimize its relevance to their sense of self

A new study links the emergence of new hominin species, expanding brain capacity and early human migration with the appearance of deep freshwater lakes

The Hudson Bay Lowlands in northeastern Canada were one of the last holdouts against the trend of global warming in the Arctic, but has in a very short period succumbed

A male hormone has been shown to alter female mosquitoes' ability to reproduce. Blocking it or its activity could offer a new way to limit mosquito populations and thus the spread of malaria

Figuring out how biomolecular self-organization happens may hold the key to understanding life on Earth formed and perhaps how it might form on other planets

A combination treatment of antibodies and virus-fighting proteins prevented death from the Ebola-Zaire strain in some primates, even when administered three days after infection

Many physicists had hoped that the Large Hadron Collider would also yield a sign of new directions for physics to take, not just a new particle, but that has yet to occur

The Texas plant claims that it will be the world's first commercial carbon dioxide mineralization plant, transforming the greenhouse gas CO2 into baking soda