As Earth warms, more 'flash droughts' suck soil, plants dry

Climate change is making droughts faster and more furious, especially a specific fast-developing heat-driven kind that…

Team steers students through murky waters of ChatGPT coding

West Virginia University researchers are preparing high school seniors and college students to harness the power…

Bees flock to clearcut areas but numbers decline as forest canopy regrows, research shows

Native bees in the Oregon Coast Range are diverse and abundant in clearcut areas within a…

Drone footage captures moment pilot whale expels placenta off Shetland

Unearthed video footage from 2019 shows a pilot whale expelling its placenta in Yell Sound, Shetland. …

Naturally fire-prone ecosystems tend to have more species of birds and mammals, study reveals

Wildfires. Many see them as purely destructive forces, disasters that blaze through a landscape, charring everything…

'I've had bears eat my chickens': Bear sightings on the rise in Sierra Madre

Bear sightings in Sierra Madre have increased in recent years, and city officials say they want…

Study: Only a few bears responsible for beehive-based human-wildlife conflicts in Poland

A team of researchers has figured out a way to track the DNA left by brown…

Apes may have evolved upright stature for leaves, not fruit, in open woodland habitats

Anthropologists have long thought that our ape ancestors evolved an upright torso in order to pick…

In sync brainwaves predict learning, study shows

Students whose brainwaves are more in sync with their classmates and teacher are likely to learn…

Researchers discover tiny galaxy with big star power using James Webb telescope

Using first-of-their-kind observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, a University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team…