A new study has uncovered a fundamental link between brain size and offspring size, helping to solve a long-standing evolutionary puzzle: why do birds lay such disproportionately large eggs?

Curtin University researchers have determined the most precise age yet for the oldest known impact crater on Earth, providing new insight into how meteorite strikes shaped the planet during its earliest history.

Researchers at The University of Manchester have uncovered how plants and soil microbes divide up nitrogen in alpine ecosystems, helping explain how these communities coexist in nutrient‑limited environments.