Restoring dry forests in the Pacific Northwest, shaped by frequent low-intensity fire and widely spaced trees, often means thinning dense stands that accumulated after decades of fire suppression.

A great Tyrannosaurus rex strides through the conifer trees of her territory, sniffing the air. She picks up the scent from ...

What are the first steps that chart the path for a cell to become a blood cell, neuron cell, or pigment cell? Scientists have developed increasingly powerful tools to track those changes, but one ...

Tree shade is one of the fastest ways to make heat more bearable. It cuts direct sunlight, protects people walking or working outdoors, and remains essential for heat action plans. A new study by ...

A new Rice University study is shedding light on a long-debated question: Can climate variability influence the risk of armed ...

Advances in DNA sequencing have expanded our view of the microbial world, but the inability to cultivate most microbes has ...

A reexamination of microfossils found in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul shows that the marks previously ...

There's so little we know about circumbinary planets—planets that orbit two stars instead of one—that they can feel like the stuff of fantasy. And for good reason: to date, we've only confirmed the ...

The Department of Defense has released a fresh batch of images and transcripts relating to reports of unidentified anomalous ...

Under the lead of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), climate simulations were used to ...

Having weathered nearly 1,500 years of time and exposure, the remains of Roman-Byzantine villages in Syria have been the ...

Entropy gets a bad rap. Typically associated with randomness and chaos, it can also correlate with freedom and diversity.