This week, researchers pinned down the age of a complete Homo-genus skull found in Greece in 1960 to at least 286,000 years ...

As deforestation and climate change threaten to transform the Amazon, there is growing concern that the ecosystem may be ...

A new study published by researchers at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa sheds light on the critical role of iron in ...

As Hurricane Erin pelted North Carolina's barrier islands with strong winds and waves this week, it destroyed many nests of ...

One class of drugs that has shown promise in treating diseases ranging from lung cancer to COVID-19 are targeted covalent ...

A line of engineering research seeks to develop computers that can tackle a class of challenges called combinatorial ...

Droughts are increasingly recognized as environmental crises with far-reaching consequences, not just on water availability, ...

With the help of innovative large-scale simulations on various supercomputers, physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University ...

A highly sensitive quantum sensor from Jena has traveled nearly 9,000 kilometers: by truck to Hamburg, by ship across the ...

Ever felt like doing a bare minimum at work? Not investing any extra effort, not going any extra mile? You aren't alone. That ...

Phytoplankton—microscopic algae that form the base of ocean food webs—have long been viewed as transient players in the ...

Air pollution from oil and gas is causing 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of health issues across the ...