Climate change causing more severe wildfires, larger insect outbreaks in temperate forests
A warmer, drier climate is expected is increase the likelihood of larger-scale forest disturbances such as wildfires, insect outbreaks, disease and drought, according to...
Dry conditions may have helped a new type of plant gain a foothold on...
Plants reap energy from the sun using two photosynthesis pathways, C3 and C4. A new study suggests that water availability drove the expansion of...
Goldilocks and the optimal mating distance: Neither too small nor too large but just...
Evolutionary theory predicts that the fitness of an individual is maximized when the genetic differences between its parents are neither too small nor too...
Saving wildlife: Using geology to track elusive hawks
Researchers are using isotopic analysis to track where elusive hawks were fledged. This technique helps wildlife managers identify critical habitat.
Images of photosynthetic protein complex splitting water
In a new article presents high-resolution images of photosystem II, the protein complex that splits water into hydrogen ions and oxygen during photosynthesis. The...
Scientists theorize new origin story for Earth’s water
Earth's water may have originated from both asteroidal material and gas left over from the formation of the Sun, according to new research. The...
Microbiome implicated in sea star wasting disease
A first-of-its-kind study shows that the sea star microbiome is critically important to the progression of the wasting disease that is killing these animals...
After a bad winter in the ocean, female Magellanic penguins suffer most, study shows
Research is showing how Magellanic penguins fare during the winter months when they spend months at sea feeding. They have discovered that oceanographic features...
Protecting adult female north atlantic right whales from injury and death key to recovery
Why is the endangered western North Atlantic right whale population growing far more slowly than those of southern right whales, a sister species also...
Far fewer lakes below the East Antarctic Ice Sheet than previously believed
Researchers recently assessed subglacial lakes detected by satellite, and found very little water. But if that's the case, what is the source of the...
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He's given a whole new meaning to "poached eggs."
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The extremely rare cave-dwelling albino fish with no eyes, the Mexican blindcat, has previously only been known to exist in Mexico.
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