An extraordinary discovery was made at the Valencina Copper Age mega-site in southwest Spain, which has captured the ...

Plants and trees extend their roots into the earth in order to draw nutrients and water from the soil—however, these roots ...

Native plant species cannot adapt quickly enough, nor move fast enough to keep ahead of climate change. If native plants are ...

According to the first-ever survey fielded by RAND's new American Youth Panel (AYP), 49% of students in middle and high ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have identified 4,208 previously unannotated open reading frames (ORFs) across 679 human-associated viral genomes using a high-throughput method ...

New research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History sheds light on the ancient origins of ...

Imagine you're sitting at a pond, listening to the din of croaking frogs. You want to know how many frogs are in the pond, but you can't pick out the individual croaks—only the combined sound rising ...

During the federal election campaign, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that if elected, he would look into ...

Ecosystem responses to global change are often nonlinear. Ecological thresholds are tipping points beyond which small changes ...

Researchers at Boise State University have developed a novel, environmentally friendly triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) ...

When you think of dinosaurs, you might imagine towering predators or gentle giants roaming prehistoric landscapes. But what ...