Analysis of a volcanic ash tuff layer, only a few millimeters thick and discovered during excavations in 2024, revealed that ...

Arctic sea ice is headed for one of its smallest winter peaks on record, an AFP review of U.S. data showed Wednesday, as ...

New research from the University of Oxford shows that cold snaps and heavy rain can stunt growth and reduce survival ...

A team of researchers from The University of Texas at El Paso has uncovered new evidence explaining why the rattlesnake's ...

Californians have long dealt with wildfire smoke as a seasonal fact of life, but those fires have become more intense and ...

Genome editing-based therapies typically aim to treat disease by correcting underlying genetic mutations in patient's cells.

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

To unlock materials of the future, including better photocatalysts or light-switchable superconductors, researchers need to ...

Plants are constantly on guard. Their roots are equipped with molecular alarm systems that detect invading microbes and trigger immune responses. Yet beneficial soil fungi routinely enter living root ...

Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a chip-scale device that can dynamically control the "handedness" of light as it passes ...

In April 2019, a marine heat wave struck a coral reef on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia, killing much of the coral and the beneficial algae that colonized it. This "bleaching" event reduced ...

In 2021 and 2023, hundreds of dolphins were stranded in shallow waters in San Antonio Bay in northern Patagonia. Some died, but many were returned safely to the sea. But what remained a mystery until ...