"This study provides new, groundbreaking insights in genetic medicine, which may lead to the development of innovative treatments for severe diseases.”

Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought.

The two-week conference cut to the heart of the global debate over the financial responsibility of rich industrialised countries, who caused the bulk of greenhouse gas emissions.

Countries have agreed to an annual finance target of $US300 billion to help poorer countries deal with impacts of climate change, according to a...

RESEARCH carried out by the University of Cambridge has revealed that Irish people are among the best at detecting people using fake accents. People from Dublin and Belfast, as well as from Glasgow and the north-east of England, are better at detecting someone imitating their accent than people from London, Essex and Bristol, reports the university. The study argues that greater social cohesion in Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow and the north-east may have resulted in a more prominent fear of cultural dilution by outsiders, thereby encouraging the development of improved accent recognition and mimicry detection. "Cultural, political, or even violent conflict are likely to encourage people to strengthen their accents as they try to maintain social cohesion through cultural homogeneity," said author Dr Jonathan R. Goodman from Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies. "Even relatively mild tension, for example the intrusion of tourists in the summer, could have this effect." Accents for social identity…

Dynamic, reversible modifications of DNA and RNA regulate how genes are expressed and transcribed, which can influence cellular processes, disease development, and overall organismal health.

COP29 summit 2024: After contentious climate finance pact, developing nations criticize $300 billion pledge as inadequate in global climate deal.

As nations continue to argue, the international community must recognise that climate finance is not merely about numbers.

While it's well known that sleep enhances cognitive performance, the underlying neural mechanisms, particularly those related to nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, remain largely unexplored.

Countries at the COP29 summit in Baku adopted a $300 billion a year global finance target on Sunday to help poorer nations cope with impacts of climate change, a deal its intended recipients criticised as woefully insufficient.

Parents are much less likely to intervene when their young children are getting dressed or performing other simple chores if those tasks are framed as learning opportunities, according to a new study by Yale researchers.

"The Baku Finance Goal represents the best possible deal we could reach."

The deal reached in the final hours of COP29 has been criticised as a free pass for countries to slack off on efforts to reduce emissions at home.

The deal reached in the final hours of COP29 has been criticised as a free pass for countries to slack off on efforts to reduce emissions at home.

Countries at the COP29 summit in Baku adopted a $300 billion a year global finance target on Sunday to help poorer nations cope with impacts of climate change, a deal its intended recipients criticised as woefully insufficient.

Countries at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan adopted a $300 billion (€288bn) a year global finance target to help poorer nations cope with impacts of climate change, a deal its intended recipients criticised as woefully insufficient

Outgoing Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan has welcomed the "hard-fought" deal on climate finance struck by countries at COP29, as activists and aid organisations harshly criticised the agreement

A scientist guides a long tube into the mouth and down to the stomach of Thing 1, a two-month-old calf that is part of a research project aiming to prevent cows from burping methane, a potent greenhouse ...

Researchers believe this symptom could be picked up by earpiece microphones, making sure the effected person is diagnosed sooner rather than later.

Dr Eric Berg explained how several common symptoms that appear in the feet could be indicative of an underlying health problem

New rules allowing wealthy polluting countries to buy carbon-cutting "offsets" from developing nations were agreed at UN climate talks Saturday, a move already raising fears they will be used to greenwash ...

New research, presented in the journal Nature, made an unexpected finding: the mice that lived longest under calorie-restricted diets were those that maintained their weight despite eating less food

While rates of evolution have appeared to accelerate over short time periods, new analysis suggests that statistical noise is affecting the data patterns. A professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, ...

These drinks might not be as healthy as we think, she advised.

The new target will "set the expectation" that NZ contributes more to help developing nations move away from using fossil fuels.