California's creek fire creates its own pyrocumulonimbus cloud

On Friday September 4, 2020 at about 6:44 PM PDT the Creek Fire began in the…

Wild cousins may help crops battle climate change

Earth is getting hotter. Huge amounts of greenhouse gases are warming the planet and altering the…

Flipping light on-off turns bacteria into chemical factories

Researchers at Princeton University have created a new and improved way to more precisely control genetically…

NASA-NOAA satellite tracking record-breaking Tropical Storm Paulette

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of Tropical Storm Paulette as it…

Study pinpoints process that might have led to first organic molecules

New research led by the American Museum of Natural History and funded by NASA identifies a…

New fossil ape is discovered in India

A 13-million-year-old fossil unearthed in northern India comes from a newly discovered ape, the earliest known…

A new method for directed networks could help multiple levels of science

Many complex systems have underlying networks: they have nodes which represent units of the system and…

Engineering speciation events in insects may be used to control harmful pests

Species typically evolve over the course of eons, but researchers at the University of Minnesota have…

NASA-NOAA satellite sees new Tropical Storm Rene drenching Cabo Verde islands

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of the latest tropical cyclone in…

Researchers make tiny, yet complex fiber optic force sensor

Researchers have developed a tiny fiber optic force sensor that can measure extremely slight forces exerted…