From the rice paddies of South Asia to the wheat fields of northern China, summer monsoon rains sustain the livelihoods of ...

Arctic sea ice is headed for one of its smallest winter peaks on record, an AFP review of U.S. data showed Wednesday, as ...

Ultrashort mid-infrared (mid-IR) laser pulses are essential for applications such as molecular spectroscopy, nonlinear microscopy, and biomedical imaging, but their generation often relies on complex ...

New research from the University of Oxford shows that cold snaps and heavy rain can stunt growth and reduce survival ...

A new study revisits a century-old question about how turbulence starts. The findings could potentially influence not only aircraft engineering but even the design of mechanical heart valves, and ...

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) have developed a new class of synthetic molecules that can capture sulfate, a widespread industrial and environmental contaminant, with ...

A team of researchers from The University of Texas at El Paso has uncovered new evidence explaining why the rattlesnake's ...

Forests were growing on the now-submerged landmass of Doggerland thousands of years earlier than previously believed, ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

Californians have long dealt with wildfire smoke as a seasonal fact of life, but those fires have become more intense and ...

For decades, ecologists have known that how a species looks or eats affects its environment. But a new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows that social behavior ...

A new study reveals that behavioral isolation between populations of Bahamas mosquitofish is driven primarily by the actions of females—not just through mating choice behaviors, but also through ...