In some parts of Russia, schoolgirls who become pregnant are being paid more than 100,000 rubles (nearly £900) for giving ...

Peak water flows in parts of India's largest river basin have been falling by more than one-sixth every decade, according to ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world in 2020, the mRNA vaccines came to the rescue of many people—but in the ...

Mindfulness and self-compassion have become popular tools for improving mental health and well-being in the workplace.

Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made significant ...

Lanthanides are a class of rare earth elements that in many countries are added to fertilizer as micronutrients to stimulate ...

Individual defects in superconducting quantum circuits have been imaged for the first time, thanks to research by scientists ...

Grade inflation happens when teachers knowingly give a student a mark higher than deserved. It can also happen indirectly, ...

A breakthrough in the understanding of how mammals create red blood cells could lead to opportunities for artificial blood to ...

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious ...

Predicting the precise path of a new asteroid or comet is a complex affair; the more observations you have, the better you ...

"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, ...