What drives Yellowstone's massive elk migrations?

Yellowstone’s migratory elk rely primarily on environmental cues, including a retreating snowline and the greening grasses…

Using waves to move droplets

Using a technique called mechanowetting, researchers have come up with a way of transporting droplets by…

Electron (or 'hole') pairs may survive effort to kill superconductivity

The emergence of unusual metallic state supports the role of ‘charge stripes’ in the formation of…

Electron (or 'hole') pairs may survive effort to kill superconductivity

Scientists seeking to understand the mechanism underlying superconductivity in “stripe-ordered” cuprates—copper-oxide materials with alternating areas of…

The mast is raised for NASA's Mars 2020 rover

In this image, taken on June 5, 2019, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,…

NOAA: 260 dolphins dead on Gulf Coast, triple usual number

Authorities say more than 260 dolphins have stranded across the U.S. Gulf Coast since Feb. 1,…

Grounding of Boeing plane hovers over big air show in Paris

Uncertainty over a Boeing jet and apprehension about the global economy hover over the aircraft industry…

With lions, elephants, Airbnb goes all-in on adventure tours

A new category of adventure travel—from tracking lions in Kenya to walking with elephants in Thailand—is…

Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get their wings

Many of an organism’s traits are influenced by cues from the organism’s environment. These features are…

Beyond Queen's stomp-stomp-clap: Concerts and computer science converge in new research

The iconic “stomp-stomp-clap” of Queen’s “We Will Rock You” was born out of the challenge that…