This artist's concept illustrates a Martian dust storm, which might also crackle with electricity. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

To try to solve the puzzle of how the infection persisted and spread over thousands of years in Eurasia, an international ...

A 50-year love affair with hairy caterpillars reveals their squirmy secrets Western tent caterpillars might not be on your ...

Omega-3 fatty acids are known to be an essential part of a healthy diet. As humans cannot produce them, they have to be ...

Organic matter helps soil lock in moisture, but exact mechanism was previously unclear. Scientists studied the process by ...

Lakes have long been viewed as sources of carbon dioxide emissions, but new research suggests they may actually act as carbon ...

A pilot test of this system using vacuum and calcium chloride successfully dried apple and mango, matching moisture levels in ...

Clouds of cosmic dust and gas contain many of the building blocks needed for life, but sulfur is mysteriously rare. One of the most common forms of sulfur is S8, a ring of sulfur atoms that form a ...

The new approach uses a purely optical technique called stimulated two-photon excitation to generate streams of photons in different polarization states directly from a quantum dot without requiring ...

According to a new study by Harvard researchers, the basal ganglia—the so-called “learning machine” of the brain—speaks in two different codes: one for recently-acquired learned movements and another ...

A new peer-reviewed study led by a national team of psychologists and public health experts found elevated rates ofposttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well as major ...

Often portrayed as lumber-hungry nuisances, North American beavers build dams that help freshwater ecosystems thrive. A new Stanford-led study uses high-resolution aerial imagery to map beaver dams ...