About two-thirds of Australians believe local governments should have more power than they currently do, according to a new study from The Australian National University (ANU).

Nepal's Supreme Court has ordered the government to limit the number of mountaineering permits issued for Everest and other peaks, a lawyer confirmed Friday, just as expeditions prepare for the spring ...

A team of physicists at Harvard University has succeeded in trapping individual polyatomic molecules in optical tweezer ...

A new study reveals that cooperation by bumblebees isn't simply a result of accumulated individual efforts. Rather, these miniature-brained creatures are not just hard-working pollinators, but also ...

Hadeda ibises (Bostrychia hagedash) are one of the most familiar species of birds across sub-Saharan Africa. They are large, long-legged birds with long, thin beaks for probing invertebrates out of ...

There is widespread agreement Australia needs to do better when it comes to gender-based violence. Anger and frustration at ...

A professor at the University of Warwick is exploring the chemistry of the galaxy far, far away this Star Wars Day, May the ...

The interest in antimicrobial solutions for personal and multi-user touch screens, such as tablets and mobile devices, has ...

Evidence from archaeological sites in the medieval English city of Winchester shows that English red squirrels once served as an important host for Mycobacterium leprae strains that caused leprosy in ...

Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, have discovered that how a special protein complex called the Mediator moves along ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Umeå researchers describe a natural product-like ...