How fish fins evolved just before the transition to land

Research on fossilized fish from the late Devonian period, roughly 375 million years ago, details the…

Forest ecologist helps refashion Barbie dolls as scientists

When Nalini Nadkarni was a kid, she’d run home from school, climb into one of the…

More Chinese scientists in America are going back home

A growing number of Chinese scientists working in the United States and other parts of the…

With purifiers and lawsuits, Pakistanis fight back against smog

For the past few months Hasan Zaidi’s phone has been ringing nonstop with calls from desperate…

Hundreds of flights delayed as fog engulfs northern India

Dense fog and hazardous air pollution blanketed northern India and disrupted hundreds of flights on Monday,…

Students want climate change lessons. Schools aren't ready

Not too long ago Coral Ben-Aharon, a 15-year-old sophomore at Granada Hills Charter High School, didn’t…

Alligators are wearing little 'hats' in South Carolina. It's all part of a study

Gadgets that resemble little black hats are showing up on the heads of alligators in South…

New US law requires probe of Marshall Islands nuclear dump threatened by rising seas

Congress is demanding that the Department of Energy investigate an aging, cracking U.S. nuclear waste dump…

First study to compare citrus varieties with combination of metabolomics and microbiome

Citrus greening disease, or Huanglongbing (HLB), is deadly, incurable, and the most significant threat to the…

New study investigates properties of the Melotte 105 cluster

A new study recently conducted by astronomers has investigated the Melotte 105 open cluster with the…