Nicotine, a potent insecticidal alkaloid unique to the nightshade family, has been employed in agriculture as a pesticide ...

We associate nests with shelter, warmth, and a safe retreat—and usually picture a bird's nest made out of twigs, grass and ...

Elements essential to life, such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur, were "delivered" to Earth and the moon ...

When Jasper Baur was a freshman at New York's Binghamton University, his interests centered on earth sciences. Then he got ...

Crystals, bacterial colonies, flame fronts: the growth of surfaces was first described in the 1980s by the ...

We thought it was evolution, but an experiment with pencils shows that tips like teeth and thorns may owe their rounded shape ...

Observations conducted with the Subaru Telescope and its first-generation wide-field camera, Suprime-Cam, have revealed new ...

The halomethane compound bromoform (CHBr3) has devastating effects on the ozone layer. In the upper layers of the atmosphere, ...

U.S. cities are rapidly becoming urban heat islands, where these cities are significantly warmer than their surrounding area.

There are many poorly understood links in the food web, often referred to as trophic relationships. Out in East Antarctica, a ...

On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu ...

What if the Trojan horse had been pulled to pieces, revealing the ruse and fending off the invasion, just as it entered the ...