Actions to save coral reefs could benefit all ecosystems

Scientists say bolder actions to protect coral reefs from the effects of global warming will benefit…

Shifting the focus of climate-change strategies may benefit younger generations

Strategies to limit climate change that focus on warming in the next couple of decades would…

Wilderness areas halve extinction risk

The global conservation community has been urged to adopt a specific target to protect the world’s…

'Poor man's qubit' can solve quantum problems without going quantum

It may still be decades before quantum computers are ready to solve problems that today’s classical…

Modeling a model nanoparticle

Metal nanoparticles have a wide range of applications, from medicine to catalysis, from energy to the…

DNA 'origami' takes flight in emerging field of nano machines

Just as the steam engine set the stage for the Industrial Revolution, and micro transistors sparked…

New tool improves beekeepers' overwintering odds and bottom line

A new tool from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) can predict the odds that honey bee…

Study shows interactions between bacteria and parasites

A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has completed the first study of the…

Museum unveils exhibition details for origins: Fossils from the cradle of humankind

The Perot Museum of Nature and Science, in partnership with the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits…

The rise, fall and resurgence of gene therapy

Twenty years ago, scientists and investors were giddy over the promise of gene therapy to cure…