What can you learn by peering into a fruit fly's gut? It turns out a lot!

They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. But what about a real-time window into the…

Directed species loss from species-rich forests strongly decreases productivity

At high species richness, directed loss, but not random loss, of tree species strongly decreases forest…

Geologists determine early Earth was a 'water world' by studying exposed ocean crust

Geologists have studied exposed, 3.2-billion-year-old ocean crust in Australia and used that rock data to build…

NASA finds ex-Tropical Cyclone Esther moving back inland

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Esther just won’t give up. The storm formed in the South Pacific Ocean, tracked…

CRISPR-HOT: A new tool to 'color' specific genes and cells

Researchers from the group of Hans Clevers at the Hubrecht Institute have developed a new genetic…

Ocean changes almost starved life of oxygen

Chemical changes in the oceans more than 800 million years ago almost destroyed the oxygen-rich atmosphere…

The GDP fudge: China edition

For all its shortcomings, the gross domestic product (GDP) of a country remains an important barometer…

Widely used weed killer harming biodiversity

One of the world’s most widely used glyphosate-based herbicides, Roundup, can trigger loss of biodiversity, making…

The magnet that didn't exist

In 1966, Japanese physicist Yosuke Nagaoka predicted the existence of a rather striking phenomenon: Nagaoka’s ferromagnetism.…

Fallowing cattle-feed farmland simplest way to alleviate western water shortage

All over the world, the rate at which humans consume fresh water is now approaching or…