Nitrate, a chemical compound of oxygen and nitrogen often used in farm fertilizers, can rise to toxic levels in surrounding ...

In materials science labs around the world, researchers regularly reproduce a peculiar experiment. Under a microscope, they ...

A new study has found people living in Arabia 125,000 years ago used complex technologies, including composite hunting ...

The idea that important genes mutate less frequently than others was first proposed in 1972 as a challenge to the traditional ...

Kelp switch between sexual and asexual reproduction depending on whether there are potential mates nearby, according to a study by Daniel Liesner at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, ...

Researchers from Skoltech (part of the VEB.RF Group) and MISIS University have figured out why graphite turns into an ...

Human culture evolves similarly to living organisms, but unlike biology, human creativity can accumulate improvements at an ...

As cities worldwide adapt to extreme weather, climate adaptation must prevent people from wading through flooded streets in ...

Way out past the asteroid belt, another belt encircles the planets in our solar system. The Kuiper belt, beyond Neptune, ...

The recent discovery of a Roman timber fort in the Preseli hills of Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales, has brought a medieval ...

Scientists at the Curtin University node at the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have linked ...