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Dead trees in the Sierra National Forest in April 2016.Credit: USFS Region 5 Why do some trees die in a drought and others don't? And...

A multi-wavelength image of the distant massive galaxy cluster, IDCS J1426.5+3508 (X-rays from Chandra in blue, visible light from Hubble in green, and infrared...

A menagerie of megafauna that inhabited Australia some 45,000 years ago. Credit: Peter Trusler, Monash University New evidence involving the ancient poop of some of...

An artist's rendering of an exoplanet is shown. An exoplanet is a planet that exists outside Earth's solar system. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech Is there anybody out...

Children with asthma were 51 percent more likely to become obese over the next decade compared to kids who did not have asthma.Image Credit:...

Pollution haze over South East London, through a window in a viewing area of the 95-storey skyscraper The Shard, the tallest building in Britain,...

Girls are often said to be better at reading than boys. At least, that is what international reading studies like PIRLS and PISA show....

THz waves confined in a novel slot waveguide interact with tunable, two-dimensional electron gas.Credit: Nano Lab, Tufts University School of Engineering Tufts University engineers have...

Raising further questions about privacy on the internet, researchers from Princeton and Stanford universities have released a study showing that a specific person's online...

This is a grid cell from the entorhinal cortex (EC) of the mouse brain, firing repeatedly and uniformly in a grid-like pattern. When a...

Salk Institute researchers discovered that inhibiting a protein called phospholipid scramblase 1 (PLSCR1) controls the infected cell's antiviral response and provides long-term protection from...