For most of us, first-hand knowledge of Greenland is probably limited to flying over it en route to North America. It's ...

A new study reveals that sharks, regardless of size or shape, closely follow the two-thirds scaling law, a centuries-old ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, as well as Rocky Vista University (U.S.), show that ...

Here’s how to calculate the tree protection zone (TPZ): First measure 1.4m up the tree’s trunk from the ground. At this point, measure the circumference of the tree; Sophie’s blueberry ash ...

People have been celebrating the summer solstice with elaborate rituals since prehistoric times. But humans aren’t the only ...

New findings may have solved the debate around why scientists have never found the missing link between dinosaurs and ...

More than 4,000 tree species are found only in Mexico and Central America, or Mesoamerica. Research published in Plants, ...

A new study unexpectedly reveals that cells thrive on chaos. It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior ...

Abstract: We study coding schemes which encode unconstrained sequences into run-length-limited (d, k)-constrained sequences. We present a general framework for the construction of such (d, k)-codes ...