Researchers have long been able to use information from smartwatches to identify physical movement, such as sitting or walking, that wearers are performing in a controlled lab setting.

It was surprising, really surprising to me,” said Benjamin Santer, a climate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, “that we could have identified with high confidence a human-caused ...

New research shows human activity is significantly altering the ways in which marine organisms are preserved, with lasting effects that can both improve and impair the fossil record.