science

Powerful storms that cause extreme weather conditions such as flooding across Europe and North America, with the potential to wreak social and economic havoc,...

World's first cannabis chromosome map reveals the plant's evolutionary past and points to its future as potential medicine. THC and CBD, bioactive substances produced by...

Electrical engineers in the accelerator physics group at TU Darmstadt have developed a design for a laser-driven electron accelerator so small it could be...

New research disputes a long-held view that our earliest tool-bearing ancestors contributed to the demise of large mammals in Africa over the last several...

When a pathogen enters their colony, ants change their behavior to avoid the outbreak of disease. In this way, they protect the queen, brood...

During the Triassic period (252-201 million years ago) mammal-like reptiles called therapsids co-existed with ancestors to dinosaurs, crocodiles, mammals, pterosaurs, turtles, frogs, and lizards....

A group of international researchers has discovered how plant root hair grows straight and long. Many studies of root hair growth have been performed,...

These days, mammals can use their forelimbs to swim, jump, fly, climb, dig and just about everything in between, but the question of how...

A previously unappreciated interaction in the genome turns out to have possibly been one of the driving forces in the emergence of advanced life,...

Soot belches out of diesel engines, rises from wood- and dung-burning cookstoves and shoots out of oil refinery stacks. According to recent research, air...

Antarctica is high and dry and mostly bitterly cold, and it's easy to think of its ice and snow as locked away in a...