Wildfire may benefit forest bats: study

Bats face many threats—from habitat loss and climate change to emerging diseases, such as white-nose syndrome.…

New instrument extends LIGO's reach

Just a year ago, the National Science Foundation-funded Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, was picking…

First 'lab in a field' experiment reveals a sunnier side of climate change

Pioneering experiments using heated field plots to test the responses of crops to temperature have revealed…

Dull teeth, long skulls, specialized bites evolved in unrelated plant-eating dinosaurs

Herbivorous dinosaurs evolved many times during the 180 million-year Mesozoic era, and while they didn’t all…

Finding meaning in 'Rick and Morty,' one burp at a time

One of the first things new viewers of the cartoon “Rick and Morty” might notice about…

Details of Parker Solar Probe's groundbreaking discoveries about the Sun

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe surprised scientists with its groundbreaking views of the Sun as the first…

Conferring leaf rust resistance in cereal crops

Genes have been identified that confer resistance to multiple leaf rust species in barley. The findings…

Hungry North Pole explorers Horn and Ousland near end of epic trek

The Norwegian-South African duo are tired and hungry after trekking hundreds of miles. Click…

First field measurements of laughing gas isotopes

Thanks to a newly developed laser spectrometer, Empa researchers can for the first time show which…

Warm-sector heavy rainfall in China: Studies and challenges

Warm-sector heavy rainfall (WSHR) is a type of rainstorm proposed by Chinese meteorologists that had been…