An international team led by researchers from the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC) has identified a key ...

Scientists led by the University of Southampton have revealed that an imbalance of nutrients in seawater can cause coral disease—possibly to a greater extent than that from heat stress of warming ...

In the past, scientists thought that prehistoric peoples only traveled briefly through high-altitude mountain areas, rather ...

Chocolate is the food of the gods. The name of the tree from which the confection originates, Theobroma cacao, combines the ...

A new wildfire risk assessment tool that takes social vulnerability into account indicates that more than 400 communities in ...

PFAS, often called "forever chemicals," are notoriously difficult to remove from the environment. Their extreme chemical ...

A new autonomous laboratory recently navigated through billions of potential material synthesis recipes to identify brighter, ...

Why do so many people lose control over their internet use? While age limits for social media are being debated, many adults ...

Climate change is likely to drive rodent-borne arenaviruses into parts of South America that have never faced these diseases, ...

Gene expression is controlled, in part, by the interactions between genes and regulatory elements located along the genome.

A solar storm like the one that caused a nine-hour blackout across Quebec in 1989 could have even more dramatic effects if it ...

Not all earthquake faults behave the same. Some stick and snap, causing earthquakes. Others move slowly over time.