June rainfall in the lower Yangtze River Basin can be predicted four months ahead

Millions of people in China depend on the rainfall brought by the monsoon during summer for…

Key to helping southern sea otter is in repopulating estuaries such as San Francisco Bay

The picture of sea otters frolicking among kelp beds and rocky shoals has become an iconic…

Insects' drag-based flight mechanism could improve tiny flying robots

Thrips are tiny insects 2 millimeters long, about as long as four human hairs are thick.…

Communications device offers huge bandwidth potential

Scientists at the University of Illinois have created sugar cube-sized blocks of an electromagnetic material with…

Greenland ice losses rising faster than expected

Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than in the 1990s and is tracking the Intergovernmental…

Chiton mollusk provides model for new armor design

The motivations for using biology as inspiration to engineering vary based on the project, but for…

New laser technique images quantum world in a trillionth of a second

For the first time, researchers have been able to record, frame-by-frame, how an electron interacts with…

Scientist to lead upcoming NASA field study of East Coast snowstorms

Snowstorms can wreak havoc across the United States, but especially on the East Coast. Snow is…

Could we cool the Earth with an ice-free Arctic?

The Arctic region is heating up faster than any other place on Earth, and as more…

Researchers discover new viral strategy to escape detection

University of Otago researchers have discovered how viruses that specifically kill bacteria can outwit the bacteria…