Forest Service debuts state-by-state statistics on carbon

For the first time, a new publication by the USDA Forest Service delivers an overview of…

Very good dogs don't necessarily make very good co-workers

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are working from home in close proximity to…

Coronavirus is revitalising the concept of community for the 21st century

With more than a third of the world’s population in lockdown, there are widespread fears of…

Archaeologists have a lot of dates wrong for North American indigenous history – but new techniques are correcting it

Columbus famously reached the Americas in 1492. Other Europeans had made the journey before, but the…

Newly discovered exoplanet dethrones former king of Kepler-88 planetary system

Our solar system has a king. The planet Jupiter, named for the most powerful god in…

Bone proteomics could reveal how long a corpse has been underwater

When a dead body is found, one of the first things a forensic pathologist tries to…

Marooned on Mesozoic Madagascar: Researchers discover 66-million-year-old 'crazy beast'

In evolutionary terms, islands are the stuff of weirdness. It is on islands where animals evolve…

New insight into bacterial structure to help fight against superbugs

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have produced the first high-resolution images of the structure of…

'Wobble' may precede some great earthquakes, study shows

The land masses of Japan shifted from east to west to east again in the months…

Heat-friendly microbes provide efficient way to biodegrade plastic

Researchers in China have engineered a microbe that shows promise as the foundation of an efficient…