Forest study shows how plants adapt to rising carbon dioxide

Studies of the world’s tropical forests have pinpointed how much water plants put back into the…

App allows citizen scientists to contribute to monarch butterfly research 

When spotting a butterfly, a common reaction may be to whip out a phone and snap…

Gender roles shape public attitudes about transgender military service, study finds

Attitudes toward transgender people have become increasingly scrutinized during the last few years. But those attitudes…

Expanded ion beams light new way for next-generation electronic devices, energy storage, smart homes

A new type of lens is lighting the way for expanded uses of large ions and…

How weapons fuel America's mass shootings

Mental illness. Video games. The Internet. These are excuses offered by the U.S. President and his…

Discovery provides path to pathogen-targeted antibiotics

“Take with food” is a common warning for people using antibiotics, but a discovery announced this…

NASA selects proposals to demonstrate smallSat technologies to study interplanetary space

NASA has selected two proposals to demonstrate small satellite technologies to improve science observations in deep…

Catalytic transformation of ethylene

National University of Singapore chemists have developed a catalytic method using visible light for the difunctionalization…

Robotic toolkit added to NASA's Mars 2020 rover

The bit carousel—a mechanism that will play a key role in the acquisition, containment and eventual…

The inky abyss

Although it looks more like an entity seen through a microscope than a telescope, this rounded…