It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature and evolution. Now, USC researchers want to add a ...

Globalization: Nature conservation faces a difficult task. When assessing the global extinction risk, occurrences of a species that do not live in their native range are currently not taken into ...

The reproductive nature of life requires a given environment to contain a relative abundance of materials for all its inhabitants, ensuring the multiplication of its populations and the survival of ...

A new proposal by an interdisciplinary team of researchers challenges that bleak conclusion. They have proposed nothing less than a new law of nature, according to which the complexity of entities ...

Nature’s first fiber optics could light the way to internet innovation By Elie Dolgin November 19, 2024. Neuroscience Some people don’t have a mind’s eye.

A carefully designed experiment uses Hardy’s paradox to illustrate lack of local realism. Hardy’s 30-year-old thought exercise has led many researchers to chip away at real versions.

The origin of Jevons paradox . In the early 1860s, English leaders began to worry about coal. The combustible black rock found deep in the ground had literally powered the Industrial Revolution.

In 1976, Stephen Hawking rocked the astrophysics world with his discovery that black holes aren't entirely black. Instead, they emit tiny amounts of radiation and, given enough time, can give off ...