Deadly Storm Babet batters Scotland and Scandinavia

Two people died and families were trapped in flooded homes in Scotland Friday as Storm Babet…

Why 10 billion snow crabs starved to death in the Bering Sea

A team of marine biologists with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Alaska Fishery Science…

Land use change can produce more food and store more carbon, study finds

Doubling food production, saving water, and increasing carbon storage capacity—this may sound paradoxical, but would be…

New research finds marine bacteria ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean

Scientists have discovered flagella in an unexpected place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum Chloroflexota. Research…

Accelerating waves shed light on major problems in physics

Whenever light interacts with matter, light appears to slow down. This is not a new observation…

Study results indicate organophosphorus flame retardants induce malformations in avian embryos

Tris(2-chloroisopropyl) phosphate (TCIPP) is one of the organophosphorus flame retardants that has been detected in the…

Study shows maternal microbiota can affect fetal development

In a Finnish study, significant differences in the gene activity of the fetal intestine, brain and…

Broad-spectrum antiviral candidate targets dengue and SARS-CoV-2

A broad-spectrum antiviral drug candidate, 2-thiouridine, that targets positive-strand RNA viruses has been identified and characterized. …

Optimizing cytochrome P450 network for high-level production of quillaic acid

Researchers from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed…

Further evidence of Earth's core leaking found on Baffin Island

A combined team of geochemists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and California Institute of Technology has…