What did birds and insects do during the 2017 solar eclipse?
In August of 2017, millions peered through protective eyewear at the solar eclipse -- the first total eclipse visible in the continental United States...
Transition metal complexes: Mixed works better
A team has investigated how various iron-complex compounds process energy from incident light. They were able to show why certain compounds have the potential...
Massive impact crater from a kilometer-wide iron meteorite discovered in Greenland
An international team has discovered a 31-km wide meteorite impact crater buried beneath the ice-sheet in the northern Greenland. This is the first time...
For arid, Mars-like Peruvian desert, rain brings death
When rains fell on the arid Atacama Desert, it was reasonable to expect floral blooms to follow. Instead, the water brought death. Planetary astrobiologists...
First tally of US-Russia polar bears finds a healthy population
The first scientific assessment of polar bears that live in the Chukchi Sea region that spans the US and Russia finds the population is...
Competition for shrinking groundwater
Groundwater, which has been used to irrigate crops, satiate livestock and quench thirst in general for thousands of years, continues to be a vital...
Tropical trees in the Andes are moving up — toward extinction
In the most comprehensive study of its kind, biologists have found that tropical and subtropical forests across South America's Andes Mountains are responding to...
Climate simulations project wetter, windier hurricanes
New supercomputer simulations by climate scientists have shown that climate change intensified the amount of rainfall in recent hurricanes such as Katrina, Irma, and...
Large areas of the Brazilian rainforest at risk of losing protection
Up to 15 million hectares of the Brazilian Amazon is at risk of losing its legal protection, according to a new study.
Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior
Slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates under the ocean drag about three times more water down into the deep Earth than previously estimated, according to...
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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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