Across 129 regions in 19 food-insecure countries, a disaster's effect on wheat flour prices depended on the local El Niño phase, most clearly for floods.

Reviewing birth data of 140 placental mammalian species, researchers find that male fetuses are difficult to birth due to being heavier and larger in size compared to female fetuses and the size diffe

Genetics may influence how people respond to some traumatic experiences more than others, particularly in childhood, data from 144,000 people in the UK suggest

TIL Guinness World Records exists because of an argument about a bird. Guinness Brewery manager Hugh Beaver couldn't settle an argument over which European game bird was fastest, so he came up with th

TIL that the 2004 Indonesian tsunami was so large it affected Earth's rotation, decreased the length of day, slightly changed the planet's shape, and shifted the North Pole by centimeters.