Last fall, the 12 students in the Jackson School of Geosciences' GEO 347G "Climate System Modeling" class set out to ...

New research indicates that sea turtles seem to navigate across hundreds of miles of open ocean using Earth's magnetic field.

Trions form when three particles, like quarks or electrons, come together. This formation occurs in quantum particles in ...

When the desert horned lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos) is thirsty, it cannot just lap up water or scoop it up like a bird ...

Researchers at McMaster University have discovered what they describe as a "megacluster" of genes in Streptomyces bacteria ...

Marine sponges may play an important, previously underestimated role in reducing methylmercury contamination in marine food ...

Water is the most studied molecule on Earth, yet a surprisingly basic question has gone unanswered for decades: When water is ...

As climate change intensifies droughts and other environmental stresses, maintaining crop productivity has become a major ...

Once relics of a bygone way of life, the iconic dry-stone dwellings with conical roofs dotted across Puglia are in increasing ...

University of Miami researchers and collaborators have expanded an offshore reef restoration and coastal resilience project ...

Ambitious public education policies have the capacity to cushion the role of the "genetic lottery" in people's life chances.

As part of their marketing strategy, many companies send public relations packages full of curated products to social media ...