The global annual amount of carbon dioxide (CO₂) released through the microbial decomposition of soil organic carbon is ...

Moth swarms so thick they can blot out the stars are fluttering across Australia, heralding a migratory spectacle unseen since the creature's brush with extinction nearly 10 years ago.

Universal Time, a long stretch of seafloor off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula was thrust upward. The magnitude 8.8 earthquake ...

Extreme dry mouth, caused by radiation used to treat cancer and by autoimmune diseases such as Sjögren's disease, radically ...

When it comes to removing Burmese pythons, one snake does not equal another. A new study by researchers at the University of ...

Say "I'm angry" out loud, and your brain reacts to it, reducing the use of emotional brain regions. But this trick does not ...

A research consortium has generated the broadest look yet at the proteins that make up mitochondria, capturing the ...

New research brings together recent advances in urban hydrology, boundary-layer meteorology, extreme precipitation and ...

An international study led by researchers from Charles University in Prague (CUNI) and the Biology Centre of the Czech ...

Northwestern University scientists have developed remarkably long, precisely patterned molecular threads that could open new ...

Four astronauts rocketed into orbit Thursday on a space station mission that will stretch until spring, among them a Canadian ...

When scientists assess how dangerous a bacterium is, the first question often seems simple: Can it be stopped or killed? In ...