Reindeer grazing changes the vegetation of northern pine forests below ground as well as above it. In a recent study in ...

Climate change can look very different at the scale of a forest, field or hillside. A new review shows how changes in ...

Scientists have proposed what they believe is the first method for detecting "mirror life"—a hypothetical form of life made ...

Migrating birds that breed in the Arctic are spreading avian influenza to polar bears in eastern Greenland, according to a new study that found evidence of infections in bear blood samples acquired ...

A shark that has become a viral sensation in South Korea was coaxed out of a canal in which it was stuck, authorities said on ...

Just like gloves, molecules can have left- and right-handed—or mirror-image—forms. Because the left- and right-handed ...

An international study led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, CSIC-UPF) in Barcelona, the Natural Sciences Museum ...

For the first time, Northwestern University physicists have coaxed a single positron—the antimatter counterpart of an ...

Earlier this year, an outbreak of Andes hantavirus on a cruise ship, which killed three passengers and sickened 13, ...

A new study led by researchers at the Konkoly Observatory of the HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences ...

The oxygen in about every other breath we take comes from microscopic cells—phytoplankton—drifting in the surface of the ...

Marine heat waves are usually seen as destructive events that can disrupt entire ocean ecosystems and trigger massive ...