Science

Salty sweat helps one desert plant stay hydrated

The Athel tamarisk excretes excess salt through its leaves. The buildup of salt ...

See the wonders of two newfound deep-sea coral reefs of...

Coral reefs around the world are in trouble. But these reefs in the Galápagos Is...

Surprisingly long-lived wild female chimps go through m...

Chimpanzees in Uganda are the first known example of wild, nonhuman primates exp...

Marsquakes and meteorite hits show Mars has a dense liq...

Mars’ dense liquid iron core is wrapped in a layer of molten rock, which threw o...

At the foot of a melting glacier in Peru, llamas helped...

A partnership between scientists and farmers suggests how llama herding can miti...

Physicists get a first glimpse of the elusive isotope n...

With seven protons and two neutrons, the lopsided atomic nucleus of nitrogen-9 p...

Pumping cold water into rivers could act as ‘air condit...

Hundreds of salmon, trout and other fish sought shelter from summer heat in huma...

How quantum ‘squeezing’ will help LIGO detect more grav...

An upgrade to LIGO that comes from exploiting a quantum rule known as the Heisen...

50 years ago, scientists warned of the ‘neglected dange...

In 1973, scientists knew temperatures in cities were higher than in rural areas....

Berkley Walker wants to revamp photosynthesis for a cha...

Finding ways to make plants work better could help feed a growing population, es...

Dinosaur feathers may have been more birdlike than prev...

Feather proteins can change during fossilization, raising questions about what d...

A rare glimpse at a relatively nearby supernova offers ...

Thanks to its home in the Pinwheel galaxy, a favorite of amateur astronomers, re...

These 8 GMOs tell a brief history of genetic modification

Since the first genetically modified organism 50 years ago, GMOs have brought us...

Most of today’s gene therapies rely on viruses — and th...

The next big strides in gene therapy for rare diseases may come from CRISPR and ...

Giant planet ‘destabilization’ may have coincided with ...

New meteorite data suggest the orbits of the giant planets abruptly changed abou...

How sea anemones living on deep-sea hydrothermal vents ...

The anemone Alvinactis idsseensis dominates its toxic environment thanks to an u...

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