The northern segment of the Great Wall of China was built not to block invading armies…
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Scientists warn against 'greenwashing' of global coastal developments
The world’s waterfront cities should not be deluged with apparently green developments because they still carry…
Boys' poor reading skills might help explain higher education gender gap
Researchers at the University of Missouri and the University of Essex in the United Kingdom found…
Entire Roman city revealed without any digging
For the first time, archeologists have succeeded in mapping a complete Roman city, Falerii Novi in…
23 years of water quality data from crop-livestock systems
Long-term research is important to understand how land management impacts runoff and erosion, which pose serious…
Deadly superbug could get a vigorous foe in repurposed antibiotic
USC researchers have discovered that an old antibiotic may be a powerful new tool against a…
Scientists lament 'Humpty Dumpty' effect on world's spectacular, rare wildlife
Some of the world’s largest, most spectacular and unheralded mammals are silently slipping away, species like…
Titan is migrating away from Saturn 100 times faster than previously predicted
By Earthly standards, Saturn’s moon Titan is a strange place. Larger than the planet Mercury, Titan…
New books present the PhyloCode, an evolution-based system for naming organisms
Move over, Linnaeus: There’s a new way of naming organisms. Click here for original…
Milkweed, only food source for monarch caterpillars, ubiquitously contaminated
New evidence identifies 64 pesticide residues in milkweed, the main food for monarch butterflies in the…