El Niño can alter the large-scale atmospheric patterns that normally help keep northern Chile exceptionally dry. During El ...

“In near-natural habitats such as forests, very high nutrient levels can indicate disruptions to the natural balance of nutrients. In gardens, too, rapid decomposition of the underwear may point to an ...

Puerto Rico went from no drought to widespread extreme drought in just months as rainfall collapsed and water shortages ...

A common lung bacterium may be far less vulnerable to oxygen than scientists have assumed for a century. The discovery could ...

These new findings could help scientists adapt crops to dry environmental conditions in the future.

A team from Japan, Germany, and Spain, led by Iwate University, has identified a possible answer in domestic cats. Through ...

Prostate cancer can find ways around treatments designed to deprive tumors of the hormones they need to grow. Weill Cornell ...

The tests revealed traces of an ancient magnetic field preserved inside the grains. From those signals, the researchers ...

Spirostomum uses a calcium-activated protein network to contract at remarkable speed without conventional muscle fibers.

Winds from a supermassive black hole can carry energy far beyond the galaxy that contains it. New observations show that this ...

By linking a largely similar mantle with a strongly asymmetric crust, the lateral thermal convection model provides a self-consistent explanation for how the Moon’s two hemispheres may have evolved so ...

New Mexico’s largest reservoir plunged to just 1.4 percent capacity in July 2026, revealing the dramatic impact of prolonged ...