Protecting coral reefs in a deteriorating environment

Coral reefs around the world face growing danger from a changing climate, on top of the…

Old ice and snow yields tracer of preindustrial ozone

Using rare oxygen molecules trapped in air bubbles in old ice and snow, U.S. and French…

Evolutionary discovery to rewrite textbooks

Scientists at The University of Queensland have upended biologists’ century-old understanding of the evolutionary history of…

Organic carbon hides in sediments, keeping oxygen in atmosphere

A new study from researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Harvard University may…

New gene editor harnesses jumping genes for precise DNA integration

A new discovery by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons could fix…

Study investigates how much climate change affects the risk of armed conflict

Intensifying climate change will increase the future risk of violent armed conflict within countries, according to…

Free the snakes: Florida scientists release America's longest snakes into the wild

Scientists opened plastic storage bins to set 15 eastern indigo snakes free this month into a…

Research decodes plant defense system, with an eye on improving farming and medicine

UMBC’s Hua Lu, professor of biological sciences, and colleagues have found new genetic links between a…

NASA reveals Tropical Cyclone Vayu's compact center

Visible imagery from NASA’s Aqua satellite showed Tropical Cyclone Vayu has a compact central dense overcast…

Discovery of field-induced pair density wave state in high temperature superconductors

Superconductors are quantum materials that are perfect transmitters of electricity and electronic information. Although they form…