Global trade in soy has major implications for climate

The extent to which Brazilian soy production and trade contribute to climate change depends largely on…

Indian tigers find lockdown grrreat

With the humans of West Bengal under virus lockdown, tigers in the Sundarbans mangrove forest in…

Carved stone turtle unearthed from Angkor reservoir site

Cambodian archaeologists have unearthed a large centuries-old statue of a turtle in an excavation at the…

Environmental activism goes digital in lockdown—but could it change the movement for good?

The environmental movement’s past recently collided with its future. April 22 marked the 50th anniversary of…

Repurposing existing drugs for COVID-19 offers a more rapid alternative to a vaccine

Repurposing existing medicines focused on known drug targets is likely to offer a more rapid hope…

Survey: Half of Americans concerned about new moms, babies being in public amid COVID-19

A new national U.S. survey finds that nearly 80 percent of respondents would be concerned about…

Optical coherence tomography measures the mechanics of eyes in response to heartbeats

Life is measured in heartbeats, so they say—and heartbeats may soon help measure the health of…

Deciphering the hidden interactions within biological networks of varying sizes

Collective behaviors are the result of dynamic local interactions between individual members of the collective. While…

Five workplace trends will shape life after lockdown

We are experiencing the biggest remote work experiment in history—but many are beginning to imagine life…

In the far future, the universe will be mostly invisible

If you look out on the sky on a nice clear dark night, you’ll see thousands…