The study's findings challenge previous beliefs about peer pressure dissipating after adolescence, suggesting ongoing development in managing desires in social contexts.

Have you got the life you always wanted? Are you positively full of glee and as happy as anyone could ever be? Or is that just what other people see when they look at you? Perhaps you don’t really know what’s going on with your emotions, so you just put on…

This could be bad for heart health.

Deep within the forest, monkeys can be very social creatures: they play, fight, vocalize, and even groom one another within their social groups. But as University of Toronto Mississauga primatologist ...

Earth is covered with water, but how much is hiding in our planet's crust?

University of Queensland research has revealed that protecting smaller but more strategic parcels of land will result in better and more cost-effective biodiversity conservation outcomes globally.

'Difficult to decipher.'

A distinctive photosynthetic machinery characterizes a unicellular organism present in algal blooms. What are the cellular mechanisms within a single-celled marine algae species responsible for triggering toxic algal blooms? A research group under the direction…

Antarctic sea ice cover remains far below average levels for the third year in a row, but researchers are uncertain whether this is a permanent shift driven by climate change or part of natural fluctuations

An international research team led by Dr. Gabriel S. Ferreira from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen has described a new species of giant turtle ...

An incredible first.

Here’s how to know if your partner is in it for the long haul.

Researchers at the Kiel Evolution Center have investigated for the first time in detail how a fungus important for biological plant protection can pass on an advantageous chromosome horizontally, using ...

Sleep loss and sleep disorders are among the most common yet frequently overlooked and readily treatable health problems. It is estimated that 50 to 70 million Americans chronically suffer from a disorder of sleep and wakefulness, hindering daily functioning…

Not once, but four times.

Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,300-year-old clay tablet depicting a catastrophic foreign invasion of the Hittite Empire in Büklükale, about 100...

Soil carbon levels can be moved in the right direction by applying a set of five soil health principles and recognising that every green plant is a carbon

Competition is good.

Fossils of pony-sized duckbill dinosaurs from Morocco have been discovered by an international team of scientists. Their analysis reveals a surprising connection between the dinosaurs of Europe and Africa. How did duckbill dinosaurs, a group that evolved…

Fossil of giant river dolphin found in Peru, whose closest living relation is in South Asia, gives clues to future extinction threats