Vast stretches of a once-verdant acacia forest south of Sudan's capital Khartoum have been reduced to little more than fields of stumps as nearly three years of conflict have fueled deforestation.
In the everyday world, governed by classical physics, the concept of equilibrium reigns. If you put a drop of ink into water, ...
Despite rare earth elements' importance in manufacturing cell phones, magnets and a host of other consumer and commercial ...
A new study from the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics reveals a surprising insight into the operation of ...
In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine brightly across cosmic time and space. Yet a rare class of galaxies ...
The CMS Collaboration has shown, for the first time, that machine learning can be used to fully reconstruct particle ...
To stay in the air when hovering over a flower, bumble bees continually flap their wings rapidly, a metabolic process that ...
Male caregiving is rare. Of the nearly 6,000 mammalian species, fewer than 5% of fathers stick around to raise their own ...
A new study finds entrepreneurs become more committed to their business ventures when they are told they will fail, ...
Why do some systems collapse suddenly after what seems like a minor disturbance? A single transmission line failure can ...
An ecosystem is not a still life. Even where everything looks stable—a woodland, a lake, the soil—the internal "bookkeeping" ...
A Purdue University digital forestry team has created a computational tool to obtain and analyze urban tree inventories on ...