Extreme events - such as heat waves, droughts, floods, fires and storms - are made worse by human activities. For...

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LONDON (12 June 2018) -- A major international conference on "Intact Forests in the 21st Century" will take place in...

Credit: Heloisa Machado Rio de Janeiro (June 10, 2018) --Since ancient times we have been interested in knowing about our...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories. Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now structurally characterized late stages in the...

Credit: Ran Wang. Biologists get a new look at plant biodiversity and function with new imaging technology developed at the...

Credit: Ly et al. Psychedelic drugs may have mind-altering powers in the physical sense, too. A new study, published June...

Credit: Patricio Opazo/Daniel Choquet/IINS Alzheimer's disease, which affects nearly a million French people, is characterized by a premature alteration of...

Credit: Photo: Valeria Azovskaya Researchers at Aalto University and York University have succeeded in creating a water-repellent composite structure out...

Sea urchins lack eyes, but can see with their tentacle-like tube feet instead, previous research has indicated. Now, researchers at...

In the United States, as well as in most of the developed world, people spend about 90 percent of their...

Credit: Courtesy of D. Corry. An invisible particle enters your lungs. The next thing you know breathing becomes difficult. You...

Credit: The Rockefeller University It's the critical first step in treating everything from strokes to cancer: a timely and accurate...

Rare earth elements (REEs) are an indispensable component of the digital technologies that are now an integral part of our...