When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

Animals of the same species don't always look the same. From birds with different beak shapes to mammals that vary in size or ...

In this age of Mars rovers, questions about the planet's ancient past have shifted. A growing body of evidence supports the idea that Mars was once warm and wet. Now researchers are focused on the ...

During hibernation, brown bears spend up to six months lying almost completely still, without eating, drinking or exercising.

Most countries will not achieve climate neutrality through greenhouse gas emission reductions alone; carbon sinks are also ...

How much will heat, flooding, drought and storms increase as a result of human-induced climate change? In a groundbreaking ...

The types of glass that we encounter in everyday life, such as window glass or smartphone screens, are disordered solids. This means that they consist of particles locked in place, like those in ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed CellScope, a high-performance single-cell analysis framework that uses manifold fitting to analyze single-cell RNA sequencing ...

A yellow disk with rays of white—an icon of childhood drawings and a flower with healing properties. We have picnics on it, ...

The extreme weather events and resulting destruction that have hit New Zealand this summer are not only signs of a changing ...

The COVID-19 pandemic introduced uncertainty, fear, and an unparalleled economic shock, resulting in the most extensive ...