Factors such as erosion, dehydration and soil compaction are jeopardizing food supplies for broad swaths of the world's ...

Archaeologists in El Salvador exhumed human remains believed to be nearly 3,000 years old Tuesday, the Ministry of Culture ...

A two-armed space robot blasted off on a private salvage operation Tuesday to slap life-extending jetpacks on old satellites ...

Volunteers armed with chisels, brushes and protective goggles chip away at rock encasing the bones of a massive prehistoric amphibian in a glass-walled laboratory on the ground floor of Warsaw's ...

Enzymes are proteins that can be harnessed for chemical manufacturing, but they are typically restricted to mild temperatures ...

Cachexia—a syndrome characterized by progressive muscle wasting—affects both humans and dogs with chronic diseases such as ...

In a study published in Economic Inquiry that analyzed debt and income across U.S. counties at the onset of the Great ...

Plants often grow spines, thorns and prickles to defend against animals that feed on them, but why this happens in some places more than others has remained a mystery. Research in New Phytologist ...

The GunaiKurnai, an Australian Aboriginal nation, are the acknowledged traditional custodians of Gippsland and the southern ...

Droughts have an immediate negative impact on agricultural production, but they can also trigger institutional and cultural ...

Low-skilled workers are less likely to participate in employer-sponsored continuing education programs than their more highly skilled colleagues. They are less convinced that acquiring additional ...

Two companion papers in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society provide new insight into the causes and ...