Up to 17% of cropland worldwide is contaminated with at least one type of toxic heavy metal, posing health risks to up to 1.4 ...

In central India's dry forests, community trackers hunt for signs of elephants to feed into an alert system that is helping ...

The first researchers fleeing US spending cuts imposed by President Donald Trump will start work at a French university in ...

An international research team led by Mayukh Kumar Ray, Mingxuan Fu, and Satoru Nakatsuji from the University of Tokyo, along with Collin Broholm from Johns Hopkins University, has discovered the ...

To protect against rising sea levels in a warming world, coastal cities typically follow a standard playbook with various ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech have found a way to make biodegradable packaging stronger while using less energy in the process ...

Laser-plasma accelerators can accelerate particles over distances that are up to 1,000 times shorter than those required by ...

Clathrates are characterized by a complex cage structure that provides space for guest ions too. Now, for the first time, a ...

An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms ...

What do you think of when it comes to extraterrestrial life? Most popular sci-fi books and TV shows suggest humanoid beings ...

UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for pleasure in California's High Sierra when he stumbled upon a new elevation ...

Small organisms can have a big impact, and researchers have explored nearly a dozen nontraditional yeast strains to determine ...