Climate warming accelerates tallgrass prairie bioiversity

A study on climate warming in an Oklahoma tallgrass prairie has implications for understanding and predicting…

Commercial hybrid-electric aircraft, reduced carbon emissions

Although we're still a long way from commercial airplanes powered by a combination of fossil fuel…

Race at the edge of the Sun: Ions are faster than atoms

Ions move faster than atoms in the gas streams of a solar prominence. Scientists have now…

Anxiety-associated brain regions regulate threat responses in monkeys

Damage to parts of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a region within the prefrontal cortex, heightens monkeys'…

Mystery shrouding oldest animal fossils solved

Scientists have discovered that 558 million-year-old Dickinsonia fossils do not reveal all of the features of…

Hitomi X-Ray Studies of Giant Radio Pulses from the Crab Pulsar

Abstract: To search for giant X-ray pulses correlated with the giant radio pulses (GRPs) from the…

Laser Blasts Show Asteroid Bombardment, Hydrogen Make Great Recipe for Life on Mars

A new study reveals asteroid impacts on ancient Mars could have produced key ingredients for life…

Traffic control of cells

Researchers develop a hydrogel whose stiffness and permeability to cells can be controlled with light.

Global Changes in the Diurnal Cycle of Surface Ozone

Abstract: Changing emissions of NOx and other ozone precursors drive trends in both production and loss…

Plant seed research provides basis for sustainable alternatives to chemical fertilizers

Scientists assessed the seed microbiomes of two successive plant generations for the first time and discovered…