Slippery salvation: Could seaweed as cow feed help climate?

Coastal Maine has a lot of seaweed , and a fair number of cows. A group…

Science teachers, students get Times Square New Year's stage

This year’s New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square will spotlight efforts to combat climate change…

US astronaut sets record for longest spaceflight by a woman

A U.S. astronaut set a record Saturday for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, breaking…

Mars 2020 rover to seek ancient life, prepare human missions

The Mars 2020 rover, which sets off for the Red Planet next year, will not only…

NASA finds heavy rain potential in tropical storm Sarai

NASA analyzed the cloud top temperatures in Tropical Storm Sarai using infrared light to determine the…

New insights into the earliest events of seed germination

Plant seeds may strike the casual observer as unspectacular—but they have properties that are nothing short…

Snowmageddon warnings in North America come from tropics more than Arctic stratosphere

Winter weather patterns in North America are dictated by changes to the polar vortex winds high…

Video: Which of these mushrooms could kill you?

There are tens of thousands of mushroom species out there, and some of them could kill…

Using deep learning to predict disease-associated mutations

During the past years, artificial intelligence (AI)—the capability of a machine to mimic human behavior—has become…

Evolution: A revelatory relationship

A new study of the ecology of an enigmatic group of novel unicellular organisms by scientists…