Research: Salmon populations may adapt their eggs to survive in degraded rivers —

A University of Southampton study suggests that the membrane of salmon eggs may evolve to cope with reduced oxygen levels in rivers, thereby...

Research: Jet fuels made from plants could be cost competitive with conventional fossil fuels...

With an estimated daily fuel demand of more than 5 million barrels per day, the global aviation sector is incredibly energy-intensive and almost...

Research: Treats might mask animal intelligence —

Rewards are frequently used to promote learning, but rewards may actually mask true knowledge, finds a new Johns Hopkins University study with rodents...

Research: Fewer plants cause developmental delays for prolific produce pollinators —

There has been a lot of buzz about honeybees' failing health because they pollinate our produce. Less well known is how critical bumblebees...

Research: Massive Martian ice discovery opens a window into Red Planet’s history —

Newly discovered layers of ice buried a mile beneath Mars' north pole are the remnants of ancient polar ice sheets and could be...

Research: NASA’s TESS mission finds its smallest planet yet —

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and Earth orbiting a bright, cool, nearby star....

Research: Scientists document late Pleistocene/early Holocene Mesoamerican stone tool tradition —

From the perspective of Central and South America, the peopling of the New World was a complex process lasting thousands of years and...
Study: We live next to the largest gas cloud in the Milky Way

Study: We live next to the largest gas cloud in the Milky Way

Astronomers have discovered the largest gas structure in the Milky Way, which stretches for 9,000 light-years and measures 400 light-years across. The structure connects...
Solar Cycle 25: The Sun has started a new solar weather cycle (Study)

Solar Cycle 25: The Sun has started a new solar weather cycle (Study)

In the past one and a half years, the Sun has been rather dull: hardly a sunspot covered its surface, hardly a solar flare...

Biology: Invasive weed may help treat some human diseases, scientists find

Photo: (A) Bud stage; (B) Flowering stage; (C) Spikelets ...

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