Genetics

One of the world’s richest biodiversity hot spots is Peru’s Madre de Dios, a region of the Amazon nestled at […]

Over the last 485 million years, Earth has been both a lot colder and a lot hotter than once thought.

Dust pollution is known to contribute to asthma and heart and lung disease. But dust blowing from Utah’s Great Salt

Some tadpoles don’t poop for the first weeks of their lives. At least, that’s the case for Eiffinger’s tree frogs

One of the widest hurricanes on record slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast on September 26 as a powerful Category 4

In 2013, Ning Zeng came across a very old, and ultimately very important, log. He and his colleagues were digging

This video was supported by funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. TRANSCRIPT David Johnson: So, in 2014, we were

When strained by earthquakes, underground networks of quartz veins can generate enough tension to leach gold from passing fluids, researchers

Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting readers’ questions about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you

Flicking the dimmer switch can help some indoor farmers curb one of their biggest challenges: rising electricity costs. Growing crops