Research: Trees are crucial to the future of our cities —

The shade of a single tree can provide welcome relief from the hot summer sun. But when that single tree is part of...

Research: Fossil barnacles reveal prehistoric whale migrations —

Many whales take long journeys each year, spending summers feeding in cold waters and moving to warm tropical waters to breed. One theory...

Research: Cold water currently slowing fastest Greenland glacier —

NASA research shows that Jakobshavn Glacier, which has been Greenland's fastest-flowing and fastest-thinning glacier for the last 20 years, has made an unexpected...

Research: Storm did damage with no recorded precedent, a tree census shows —

A new study shows that damage inflicted on trees in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria was unprecedented in modern times, and suggests that...

Research: ‘Tarsier Goggles’ simulates vision of a tarsier —

Imagine that you live in the rainforests of Southeast Asia, you're a pint-sized primate with enormous eyes that are roughly the same size...

Research: Mystery shrouding oldest animal fossils solved —

Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have discovered that 558 million-year-old Dickinsonia fossils do not reveal all of the features of the...

Research: Climate warming accelerates tallgrass prairie bioiversity —

A University of Oklahoma study on climate warming in an Oklahoma tallgrass prairie has implications for understanding and predicting ecological consequences of climate...

Research: The most aggressive spider societies are not always the ones that flourish —

Evolutionary biologists at McMaster University who study the social lives and behaviour of colony spiders -- some of which are docile, others aggressive...

Research: The growth of a wheat weed can be predicted to reduce the use...

Wild oats are a kind of grass weed and one of the greatest enemies of certain grains such as barley, rye and wheat....

Research: Pick right-sized rock or be eaten by cannibal neighbors —

For young hellbenders, choosing the right home is more than a major life decision. Their survival can depend on it. These aquatic salamanders, natives...

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