Dozens of woodland bird species are threatened, and we still don't know what works best to bring them back

Australia’s woodland birds include colorful parrots, flitting honeyeaters, bright blue fairywrens and the unassuming “little brown…

New research sheds light on how circadian rhythms work

New research from a multidisciplinary team helps to illuminate the mechanisms behind circadian rhythms, offering new…

Quantum scientists achieve state-of-the-art defect-free atom array

The glowing dots in these images are single rubidium atoms, pristinely arranged in arrays about as…

New study finds tree diversity increases carbon storage, soil fertility in forests

Keeping tree diversity intact in Canada’s many forests over the long term can help increase carbon…

Research helps pave way for first manned mission to Mars

Scientists have greater insight into the atmospheric conditions on Mars than ever before following an international…

Using mycelium to create a self-healing wearable leather-like material

A pair of biotechnologists at Newcastle University, working with a colleague from Northumbria University, all in…

First-ever sturgeon fossil found in Africa

A fossil of a “royal fish”—estimated to be more than 66 million years old—is the first…

Biologists compare and select most effective and nontoxic biocides for mobile toilets and dump wells

In agriculture, country houses and many other places without central sewerage, people use mobile toilets or…

A novel mechanism by which cells adhere more strongly to their surrounding matrix in response to stress

The DNA molecules in our cells can be damaged by various extrinsic and intrinsic factors called…

Highly multicolored, light-emitting arrays for compressive spectroscopy on a chip

Miniaturized and multicolored light-emitting device arrays provide a promising instrument to sense, image and compute in…