Intelligent people tend to perform better at school and at work, as numerous studies have shown. But what happens in domains ...

For the first time in Finland, population-level norm values have been established for estimating life expectancy adjusted for ...

The European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) was once widespread but has now become so scarce in the North Sea that it no longer ...

Tall trees are generally associated with high-biomass forests. This is particularly true for forests dominated by Sequoia ...

A 30-year conservation effort has helped the critically endangered Galápagos snapdragon (Galvezia leucantha subsp. leucantha) ...

Planets form from disks of gas and dust around young stars, but the gas needed for growth does not last forever. New ...

Tiny mineral dust particles act as so-called ice nucleators—crystallization seeds on which ice crystals form. A research team ...

Ecology, I analyzed how fires were able to burn into communities and how fire-resistant land uses could be combined with fuel ...

With the invasive emerald ash borer beetle decimating black ash across North America, according to the U.S. Forest Service, a ...

Climate change is reshaping global livestock production systems and leading to increased research on the topic. However, ...

Carotene, a key intermediate in lycopene biosynthesis, is widely found in plants and photosynthetic microorganisms, but its ...

While extreme weather and habitat changes can spell doom for many native animals, including insects, a different picture has ...