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Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago may compel a science textbook rewrite of how brains evolved.Credit:...

A new study published in Science reports results from the first-ever global field assessment of the ecological impacts of grazing in drylands. The international research...

As people age, maintaining a positive and predictable social environment becomes more and more important. For instance, keeping close ties with friends and family has...

Zooming in on a single disease and studying it intensely is often the most productive route to finding treatments. But there’s no easy way to...

With the help of an AI, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in designing synthetic DNA that controls the cells' protein production....

A new model explains that water evaporating from the Arctic Ocean due to a warming climate is transported south and can lead to increased snowfall...

A research group led by 2014 Nobel laureate Hiroshi Amano at Nagoya University's Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability (IMaSS) in central Japan, in...

A new study finds that bird species with extreme or uncommon combinations of traits face the highest risk of extinction. The findings are published in...

An international team of astronomers have turned a new technique onto a group of galaxies and the faint light between them – known as ‘intra-group...

UPTON, NY—Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory helped measure how unpaired electrons in atoms at one end of a molecule...

Little is known about how social behavior develops in the earliest stages of life. But most animals––including humans––are born with an innate ability to interact...

Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277317Credit: Ross Sneddon, Unsplash, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277317 Article Title: Long Covid stigma: Estimating burden and validating scale in a UK-based sample...

Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276824Credit: Daniel Reche, Pixabay, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276824 Article Title: Cannabis use in pregnancy and maternal and infant outcomes: A Canadian cross-jurisdictional...

A new study finds that Great Britain’s city centers vary considerably in their green attributes—such as tree cover, vegetation, and presence of parks—with potential implications...

Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is one of the most common types of epilepsy worldwide. Although symptomatic medications are available, one-third of TLE patients remain unresponsive...