A new study from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has identified a molecular switch that controls whether stressed ...

A research team from The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) and East China Normal University (ECNU) has published a ...

Bangkok authorities declared a flood disaster across the Thai capital on Saturday after almost 48 hours of heavy rain left ...

In a freshwater canal surrounded by mangroves in southern Guatemala, hundreds of baby tropical gars—a torpedo-shaped fish ...

What are the chances of finding extraterrestrial life in our solar system? Frank Postberg, a professor of planetary science ...

When Pliny the Younger recorded his firsthand experience of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago—a cataclysm that ...

Removing a single amino acid can determine whether new proteins assemble into stable complexes within mitochondria. An enzyme ...

More than 40 million people in the northeastern United States braced Friday for heavy rain and strong winds as an unusually ...

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have developed a way to "supercharge" a plant's ...

Before the parasite Toxoplasma gondii can invade a cell, it has to know it has reached the right place. New research from the ...

When plant roots are injured—by insects, for example—the pressure inside the root drops, and a pressure wave spreads rapidly ...

Dryland ecosystems cover 40% of the Earth's land surface and support more than 2 billion people. According to a new study ...