'Crazy' ants that kill birds eradicated from Pacific atoll

An invasive species known as the yellow crazy ant has been eradicated from a remote U.S.…

See you in 17 years: America's cicada plague winding down

They’ve been everywhere, crawling up trees and flitting about clumsily in search of a mate, droning…

'It's a plague': Croatian farmers incensed by wolf attacks

The wolf corpse hanging from a road sign outside a small Croatian town warned that farmers…

Climate change: Large-scale CO2 removal facility set for Scotland

A plant that could remove the equivalent to 40 million trees every year is planned for…

European system speeds data flow with 50 000 links

Valuable data is flowing rapidly from Earth observing satellites back to the planet, thanks to the…

Increased organizational support for employees' adoption efforts yields positive benefits

When an organization supports its employees who choose to adopt children, the employees, their families, the…

Shifting sands, creeping soils, and a new understanding of landscape evolution

A new study published in Nature Communications finds that piles of sand grains, even when undisturbed,…

Physicists use electric fields to induce oscillations in tiny particles

A challenging frontier in science and engineering is controlling matter outside of thermodynamic equilibrium to build…

Food protein can eliminate pungency and bitterness of extra virgin olive oil

Researchers have been investigating the potential health-promoting qualities of extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) for decades,…

Scientists Use Stellar Mass to Link Exoplanets to Planet-Forming Disks

Using data for more than 500 young stars observed with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA),…