Half of all jobs in the U.S. are found through recommendations in informal networks, such as LinkedIn. High-paying jobs are usually filled by influential people with inside knowledge. Groups that are ...

Deforestation has remained a significant issue globally, with primary forests contributing to 16% of the total tree cover loss in the last two decades, driven by climate change and intensive human activity. ...

Volunteers have joined a search in Los Angeles for Hannah Kobayashi, a 30-year-old woman from Hawaii who went missing more than two weeks ago after not making a connecting flight to New York.

We distance ourselves from completely neutral products if they are liked by people who have political views that we find disagreeable. This is shown in four studies from Linköping University, Sweden. ...

Two hundred and thirty million years ago, in what's now Wyoming, the seasons were dramatic. Torrential rain would pelt the region for months on end, and when the mega-monsoon ended, the region became ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, it captured grainy photographs of large ice-covered moons. Now nearly 40 years later, NASA plans to send another spacecraft to Uranus, this time equipped ...

The secret to cellular youth may depend on keeping the nucleolus—a condensed structure inside the nucleus of a cell—small, according to Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The findings were elucidated ...

Researchers have found that when we invest in our appearance and feel we look better—whether in reality, online, or even just in our imagination—we behave more kindly and are twice as likely to donate ...

Research by astronomers and computer scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) could revolutionize our understanding of the sun. The study, part of the "SPIn4D" project, combines ...

Over the past few decades, because of the frequent number of typhoons making landfall in South China, the Guangzhou Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology has developed a model, called CMA-TRAMS, ...

Communities in England and Wales are starting a "massive clean-up" after torrential rain and widespread flooding from Storm Bert over the weekend.

When Albert Einstein introduced his theory of general relativity in 1915, it changed the way we viewed the universe. His gravitational model showed how Newtonian gravity, which had dominated astronomy ...

The death of the locally-fledged bird, named Sparky, is the first recorded incident of its kind in the south of Scotland, according to a conservation body.

Weather maps show more rain clouds moving in from the Atlantic, which are set to bring heavy showers with up to 10mm an hour on already wet ground after the impact of Storm Bert

The club failed to find insurance cover after it was flooded in 2020, and has been hit again.

Prime Minister Modi's visit to Visakhapatnam cancelled due to bad weather, impacting Green Hydrogen Project inauguration plans.

Tirupati, Nov 25 (IANS): A 17-year-old Royal Bengal tiger died at Sri Venkateswara Zoological Park in the temple town of Tirupati on Monday. According to Zoo officials, the tiger named 'Madhu' was brought to the zoo from Banergatta Biological Park in Bengaluru in 2018. Zoo Curator C. Selvam said the tiger was under t.....