A new study on mayflies of the genus Ecdyonurus illustrates just how multifaceted and surprising reproductive behavior in ...

A new study using multidecade satellite imagery and face-to-face human interviews tracked the environmental and societal ...

Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. An international group of researchers that includes Virginia Tech's Xiaofeng Wang and Boris A. Vinatzer discovered the identity of fungal ...

"Follow the water" has been a guiding mantra of astrobiology, and even space exploration more generally, for decades. If you ...

Neuroscientists have uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can't? The journal Science published the research led by Emory University and the ...

Some of the smallest marine species are actually the most important because all other life depends on them. Phytoplankton are ...

Is your phone use hurting your relationship? A study from researchers at the University of Connecticut and Columbia University published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships suggests it ...

The study, published in Coral Reefs, tests how winters influence coral sensitivity to bleaching—either priming them to cope ...

Spain endured its wettest January and February in almost half a century, with a string of deadly storms lashing the country, ...

Coral reefs over the past 12,000 years grew best when the ocean temperature was 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius), according to new research from Florida Tech. Recent ocean warming and ...

A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand the mysterious forces at work in some of the smallest building blocks in nature: atomic nuclei. In new research published in Nature ...

For an oyster, creating an internal environment for calcification that forms its distinctive hard shell is essential. But new Harvard research has found that these bivalves may outsource the work, ...