It's a tough world for microbes. When resources grow limited and environments worsen, microbes have figured out ways to hunker down and go dormant until conditions improve. However, scientists have ...

A Dartmouth study shows that annual rainfall in much of the world has consolidated over the past four decades into heavier storms with longer dry periods in between. The findings are the first to show ...

Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have uncovered new information suggesting a potential connection between Homo ...

When you think of outer space, you're likely picturing stars, planets and moons. But much of space is filled with clouds of gas, plasma and stardust—known as interstellar clouds.

In many primate species, males are much larger than their female counterparts, which is generally attributed to male ...

Within a very short time, tropical storm Doksuri intensified into a super typhoon in July 2023. Exceptionally strong winds ...

Last night, Labor unveiled a budget designed to tackle intergenerational equity in Australia through bold tax reform. It ...

As debate intensifies over data center construction and how to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), a new nationally ...

Researchers at the Technion have discovered how changes in genetic regulatory sequences can lead to alterations in the form and structure of animals—even when genetic regulatory systems are stable and ...

When inorganic nanoparticles come together, their optical, electronic, and magnetic properties depend strongly on how they ...

More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a myriad of marine animals, many of which have now become extinct. This ...

As modern technologies shrink to the nanoscale, surfaces increasingly dictate how materials deform, yield, and fail. Yet ...