The top 2 inches of topsoil on all of Earth's landmasses contains an infinitesimal fraction of the planet's water --...

Diatoms are a common type of photosynthetic microorganism, found in many environments from marine to soil; in the oceans, they...

Credit: Alina Isakova/EPFL Scientists at EPFL have developed a technique that can be a game-changer for genetics by making the...

Metastatic pancreatic cancer -- cancer that has spread from the pancreas to other tissues and is responsible for most patient...

Credit: Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy Just when lighting aficionados were in a dark place, LEDs came to the rescue. Over the...

Credit: Julia Fine, Penn State A chemical that is thought to be safe and is, therefore, widely used on crops...

Credit: L.A. Cicero In a lab 18 feet below the Engineering Quad of Stanford University, researchers in the Dionne lab camped...

Credit: Steve Hinchliffe Mass livestock production is driving molecular changes in diseases that could lead to human pandemics, according to...

A team of Chinese scientists announced on Jan. 15 that they have developed a new bright VUV FEL light source,...

Credit: United Nations University The volume of discarded electronics in East and Southeast Asia jumped almost two-thirds between 2010 and...

Credit: Francois Teste Rainforests on infertile wet soils support more than half of all plant species. Shrublands on infertile dry...

Credit: © Ashwin Ravikumar, The Field Museum. The world's forests are crucial to slowing climate change, but they're often destroyed...

Credit: Photo: Jan-Peter Kasper/FSU Jena Jena (Germany) Wolffia globosa, a tiny, rootless duckweed, or water lens, apparently has what it...

(John Innes Centre) A new five-year project BBSRC Brassica, Rapeseed and Vegetable Optimisation (BRAVO), will receive funding from the Biotechnology...

Credit: Pixabay Entering a 'wheat pan-genomics' era from single to multiple wheat DNA references, the Earlham Institute (EI) aims to...

Credit: colorbox Forests are potent carbon sinks, but also the oceans' seagrasses can store enormous amounts of carbon. A little...

Conservation and logging groups in Central and West Africa are failing to fully incorporate local concerns into management, marginalizing the...

Credit: Etienne Laliberté MONTREAL, Jan. 12, 2017 - Some of the Earth's ecosystems host a disproportionately high number of plant...

Credit: Elena Zhukova for UCOP UC Santa Barbara marine biologist and conservation ecologist Benjamin Halpern is among 10 recipients of...

Credit: Su Kim/Northwest Fisheries Science Center The acidification of the ocean expected as seawater absorbs increasing amounts of carbon dioxide...