Could catnip become the new DEET?

New research may have people heading to their backyard instead of the store at the outset…

Woolly mammoths may have shared the landscape with first humans in New England

Woolly mammoths may have walked the landscape at the same time as the earliest humans in…

Volcanoes might light up the night sky of this planet

Until now, researchers have found no evidence of global tectonic activity on planets outside our solar…

Thin explosive films provide snapshot of how detonations start

Using thin films — no more than a few pieces of notebook paper thick — of…

Female gannets go the extra mile to feed chicks

Female gannets travel further than male gannets to find fish for their chicks in some years…

Want to cut emissions that cause climate change? Tax carbon

Putting a price on producing carbon is the cheapest, most efficient policy change legislators can make…

NASA's ICESat-2 satellite reveals shape, depth of Antarctic ice shelf fractures

When a block of ice the size of Houston, Texas, broke off from East Antarctica’s Amery…

WOX9: A jack of all trades

Researchers used CRISPR, a genome-editing tool, to figure out the hidden roles of a developmental gene…

Ancient DNA reveals clues about how tuberculosis shaped the human immune system

A new study employing ancient human DNA reveals how tuberculosis has affected European populations over the…

Cutting off stealthy interlopers: a framework for secure cyber-physical systems

Cyber-physical systems (CPS), which combine modern networking with physical actuators, can be vulnerable against hackers. Recently,…