Deforestation slowed worldwide last year, but the improvement is unlikely to last as the situation deteriorates in Central ...

Until now, the alien white-hot worlds of exoplanets have been depicted as circular, but new research has revealed the true ...

The two warmest time periods on Earth in the past 140 million years drove both mass extinctions and explosions in plant ...

Multiple coveys of wild bobwhite quail were recently sighted at the University of Tennessee's Ames AgResearch and Education ...

Lilly Jan was perplexed and a little annoyed. Last year, Jan, an assistant teaching professor in the Cornell Nolan School of ...

With spring underway and the weather warming, reptiles are on the move in suburbs, parks and scrubland across Australia.

Researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the University of Regensburg have developed a method for determining, ...

Deep in the forests of Yunnan, China, scientists have discovered a "fungal giant" that challenges our understanding of how ...

People who are better at noticing fine details in sound—an ability known as auditory precision—can master the pronunciation ...

A new species of dinosaur—a long-clawed predator the size of a large tiger—has been discovered by a UCL-led team from a ...

Magnetic skyrmions (MSks) are swirling patterns of magnetization that form inside certain magnetic materials. They can behave ...

Seeing inside an object is one thing; seeing exactly what it is made of, in three dimensions, is far more difficult. Now, ...