Tree swallows in the northern U.S. and Canada face the greatest risk from climate change despite responding to temperature ...

Long before scientists began studying them in the lab, mind-altering substances were already being gathered from plants, ...

To better assess the danger posed by volcanoes, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a new ...

Far beneath the surface of the ocean lies the largest and least explored habitat on Earth. The deep sea is cold, dark, highly ...

For researchers on the hunt for the genetic roots of disease, the cost of deep whole-genome sequencing makes it challenging ...

Hillslopes in Arctic regions with frozen soils can host a suite of geometric patterns, from circles and stripes to polygonal ...

Since gravitational waves were first detected in 2015, instruments including LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA have picked up a steady ...

Nanocrystals are already used in millions of devices, including televisions, laptops and displays, and are considered key ...

Nature is beautiful, powerful and essential. But nature is not always gentle. The same biological world that gives rise to ...

The Euclid space telescope has spotted the oldest quasars—the brightest objects in the universe—ever discovered, deepening a ...

Why do some coral reefs weather marine heat waves better than others? A new study published in Scientific Reports shows that ...

The researchers mixed the familiar chemical building blocks—molecules with carbon-halogen bonds—with a light-activated catalyst. When illuminated by blue LED light, the catalyst temporarily ...