Microbes on the skin change as a person ages, along with skin function and condition. Those changes track frailty more than ...

Researchers engineered an enzyme that can attack polyurethane shoe foam, one of the hardest plastics to recycle.

Cocoa harvests may depend heavily on intense rain during flowering, giving researchers a possible way to forecast bad crop ...

Anger, compassion, and hope can shape climate attitudes, but a real-money experiment found they did little to motivate actual ...

A compost bacterium produced CCPUR1, the strongest enzyme yet found for breaking down polyurethane and nylon plastic.

Woolly rhino DNA from 183 fossils traces most of the animal's genetic variety to milder East Asia and the Altai rather than ...

Satellite images show glacier and bedrock that broke off the mountain near the Nepal-Tibet border caused the flood disaster ...

A tongueless, nearly blind frog hunts fish in murky water using star-shaped fingertips as sensitive as a human fingertip.

Reading for pleasure is linked to sharper attention in children, lower stress in adults, and a reduced risk of dementia in ...

Rainwater in the Amazon carried a chemical warning of severe drought weeks before conditions reached their worst point.

Microscopic clues in volcanic ash reveal how magma breaks apart, heals, and sticks back together during explosive eruptions.

Scientists found mosquito waste can reveal West Nile virus, unexpected viruses, parasites, and clues about local mosquito ...