For the second time in the past two weeks, the U.S. Drought Monitor, a prominent national report, has classified 100% of California as being drought-free. That's a rating that hasn't occurred in 25 ...

A team of shark researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has solved a long-standing mystery, identifying the first ...

Most people can imagine why a shrinking Great Salt Lake would mean unhealthy dust storms for the Wasatch Front, or why refilling the lake through water conservation could reduce dust exposure. Now, ...

An international team of scientists, led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has discovered a new ...

During chemical reactions, atoms in the reacting substances break their bonds and re-arrange, forming different chemical ...

A new study has quantified, for the first time, how much heat stress beef cattle actually experience across South America—as ...

Scientists can peer into cells to get a limited view of their activity using microscopes and other tools. However, cells and ...

Reliable predictions of how the Earth's climate will respond as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increase are based on ...

Research from Monash University explores how rising temperatures and growing urban environments can affect behavior in native ...

Mass shootings in white-majority neighborhoods received roughly twice the news coverage of mass shootings in neighborhoods ...

Inflammation has to fight pathogens fast—but it can't get out of control. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center ...

Chirality—often described as "handedness"—is a fundamental property of nature, underlying the behavior of molecules ranging ...