Countries pledge $9.8B for global climate fund to help poor

Rich countries have pledged $9.8 billion to help poor nations tackle climate change, the fund coordinating…

Fire-spawned forest fungi hide out in other organisms, study finds

When a wildfire obliterates a forest, the first life to rise from the ashes is usually…

Two destructive fires. Hundreds of miles apart. One culprit: Winds

The two fires broke out hours apart and hundreds of miles from each other. …

What use do teenagers make of YouTube?

“What are teens doing with YouTube? Practices, uses and metaphors of the most popular audio-visual platform”…

New research on giant radio galaxies defies conventional wisdom

Conventional wisdom tells us that large objects appear smaller as they get farther from us, but…

Did an extraterrestrial impact trigger the extinction of ice-age animals?

A controversial theory that suggests an extraterrestrial body crashing to Earth almost 13,000 years ago caused…

Hurried evacuations as wildfires rage in California

Californian firefighters on Friday battled a fast-moving wildfire north of Los Angeles as further evacuation orders…

Messages in amber envelopes

Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have shown that the incidence of midge and fly larvae…

Online trade poses new threat for wild orchids

The wild orchid trade in China has extended its reach past physical markets to the Internet.…

Determining the shapes of atomic clusters

Too large to be classed as molecules, but too small to be bulk solids, atomic clusters…