Project traces 60 million years of elephant evolution and how humans may be the species' undoing

In 2013, University of Michigan researcher Bill Sanders was invited to the Arabian Peninsula by an…

The Beetaloo gas field is a climate bomb. How did CSIRO modeling make it look otherwise?

Even as Australia braces for a summer of projected extreme heat waves and bushfires amid the…

Opinion: Mental health needs to be a cornerstone of equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives

Equity, diversity and inclusion programs have become ubiquitous in the workplace. As organizations publicly express their…

Researchers observe wolves hunting and killing sea otters and harbor seals on Alaska's Katmai coast

Firsthand observations of a wolf hunting and killing a harbor seal and a group of wolves…

Researchers devise cleaner, more efficient production of key input for detergents

Conventional techniques of generating alkylbenzene, a key input in the production of detergents, produce toxic halogen…

Extreme environments leave genomic imprint in tiny organisms: Study

The signature written in genomic DNA has long been linked to ancestry, not to geographic location.…

Researchers discover how a fly species gained sole access to a fruit in the Seychelles

A team led by University of California, Riverside, scientists has cracked the puzzle of why Drosophila…

Modeling polymers for next-generation manufacturing and sustainability

Polymers are large molecules that are made by linking a series of identical building blocks. They…

Housecats use hundreds of facial expressions to interact with other cats

Brittany Florkiewicz, an assistant professor of psychology at Lyon College, and Lauren Scott, a medical student…

Rainforest villages in French Guiana cut off by loss of airline

French Guianans say they urgently need new roads after the loss of the South American territory’s…