In 1967, a Malawian farmer stumbled upon a hidden hoard of eight copper ingots buried beneath a tree. Now, more than half a ...

A new study from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has identified a molecular switch that controls whether stressed ...

A research team from The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) and East China Normal University (ECNU) has published a ...

Bangkok authorities declared a flood disaster across the Thai capital on Saturday after almost 48 hours of heavy rain left ...

In a freshwater canal surrounded by mangroves in southern Guatemala, hundreds of baby tropical gars—a torpedo-shaped fish ...

A team of INRAE scientists, in collaboration with Université Côte d'Azur and Nanjing Agricultural University in China, has ...

What are the chances of finding extraterrestrial life in our solar system? Frank Postberg, a professor of planetary science ...

When Pliny the Younger recorded his firsthand experience of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago—a cataclysm that ...

Removing a single amino acid can determine whether new proteins assemble into stable complexes within mitochondria. An enzyme ...

Before the parasite Toxoplasma gondii can invade a cell, it has to know it has reached the right place. New research from the ...

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have developed a way to "supercharge" a plant's ...

When plant roots are injured—by insects, for example—the pressure inside the root drops, and a pressure wave spreads rapidly ...