Domestic grazers are increasingly replacing wild herbivores in ecosystems around the world, leading to insidious changes in soil characteristics and vegetation patterns. A long-term study carried out ...

Marine scientists are calling for more focused management strategies and further interventions to secure the future of marine ecosystems and key fish species, as well as "near threatened" dolphins and ...

A team of materials scientists and engineers at ETH Zurich has developed a light-triggered chemical process for breaking down certain polymers into their constituent monomers. The paper is published ...

Thutmose II was the fourth ruler of the illustrious ancient Egyptian 18th dynasty, which included Tutankhamun. Now, the ...

A new Nature Physics study has shed light on the long-hypothesized liquid-liquid critical point where water simultaneously exists in two distinct liquid forms, opening new possibilities for ...

University of Ferrerra researchers reported on the evolution of European skin, eye and hair pigmentation over the last 45,000 ...

Elon Musk's latest space-related hammer throw is to call for it to be deorbited as soon as two years from now.

Research from St. Olaf College and the University of Denver, published in Current Biology, found that a parasitic fly in ...

A new study reconstructing extreme rainfall in Arabia has uncovered that rainfall in the region was five times more extreme ...

Two heads are better than one, as the saying goes, and sometimes two instruments, ingeniously recombined, can accomplish feats that neither could have done on its own.

Cornell University researchers have developed a new method to estimate North Atlantic right whale numbers—offering a potentially safer and more cost-effective way to monitor this critically endangered ...

An early-career physicist mathematically connects timelike and spacelike form factors, opening the door to further insights ...