On a bleak stretch of the Colorado Desert in Southern California, a compact four-wheeled rover recently trundled 16 miles (26 ...
El Niño, characterized by warmer-than-normal water temperatures in parts of the equatorial Pacific, made its return in June ...
Viruses play a major role in the functioning of ecosystems. They profoundly influence the dynamics of microbial communities, ...
Physicists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have examined a fundamental property of quantum mechanics in ...
Materials engineers have developed the ability to manipulate structure and matter at the nanoscale for solid-state alloys ...
Three decades ago, researchers working atop the Llullaillaco volcano, located on the border between Argentina and Chile, ...
Bumblebees see the world differently under stress, processing visual information more sharply and making quicker decisions, ...
Malaria is one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases. Because it is transmitted by mosquitoes, malaria is extremely ...
An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...
In the quest to create a robust supply chain of rare earth elements necessary for the clean energy revolution and everyday ...
A remarkable quality of bioengineering is that scientists can take biological processes honed by millions of years of evolution and use them to efficiently create drugs, chemicals and other products ...
Microorganisms from our planet could survive on celestial bodies where water is present, such as Mars. That is the conclusion ...