Washington wine grape vineyards experimenting with sustainable pest management systems are seeing an unexpected benefit: an increase in butterflies. O...
Climate change denial in public discourse may encourage climate scientists to over-emphasise scientific uncertainty and is also affecting how they the...
In a new study, published in Nature this week, a research team led from Uppsala University in Sweden presents the discovery of a new microbe that repr...
A group of leading soil scientists, including the University of Delaware's Donald L. Sparks, has summarized the precarious state of the world'...
For the last decade, scientists have deployed increasingly capable underwater robots to map and monitor pockets of the ocean to track the health of fi...
The Ebola virus (EBOV) causes lethal hemorrhagic fever in humans, with extremely high morbidity and mortality. It was first discovered in two simultan...
One of developmental biology's most perplexing questions concerns what signals transform masses of undifferentiated cells into tremendously comple...
In the history of continental drift, India has been a mysterious record-holder. More than 140 million years ago, India was part of an immense supercon...
While fjords are celebrated for their beauty, these ecosystems are also major carbon sinks that likely play an important role in the regulation of the...
They may not be on Facebook or Twitter, but dolphins do, in fact, form highly complex and dynamic networks of friends, according to a recent study by ...