Challenging prevailing theory about how deep-sea vents are colonized

Despite being relatively close together, two recently discovered hydrothermal vent fields in the Gulf of California…

Moon has a water-rich interior

Using satellite data, researchers have for the first time detected widespread water within ancient explosive volcanic…

Allowable ‘carbon budget’ most likely overestimated

While most climate scientists, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, implicitly define 'pre-industrial' to be…

Corn gene conferring resistance to multiple plant leaf diseases

Researchers have found a specific gene in corn that appears to be associated with resistance to…

Strength of tectonic plates may explain shape of the Tibetan Plateau

Geoscientists have long puzzled over the mechanism that created the Tibetan Plateau, but a new study…

What do sex in moss and neurons have in common?

For many years biologists have wondered why plants have so many genes coding for proteins that…

New method to generate human antibodies

Scientists have developed a method to rapidly produce specific human antibodies in the laboratory. The technique…

Psychologists say our ‘attachment style’ applies to social networks like Facebook

Scientists lend insight into the interplay between attachment style and how people manage and perceive friendship…

Study finds 90 percent of American men overfat

Researchers reported earlier this year in the journal Frontiers of Public Health that up to 76…

Alcohol boosts recall of earlier learning, study suggests

Drinking alcohol improves memory for information learned before the drinking episode began, new research suggests.