Drought increases microbe-laden dust landing in Sierras
Elevation and forest types of sites selected for the Sierra dust study. Credit: Mia Maltz/UCR...
Robot helps reveal how ants pass on knowledge
Ant leading other ant to new nest, known as tandem running. Credit: Norasmah Basari and...
Ancient source of oxygen for life hidden deep in the Earth’s crust
Researchers were able to simulate some of the key conditions of subsurface rock fracturing using...
Austrian scientists race to reveal melting glaciers’ secrets
Such ice formations are a unique time capsule. Jumping from rock to rock to rock...
New Pompeii finds highlight middle-class life in doomed city
A picture provide by the Pompeii Archeological site press office, showing the latest discoveries in...
Growing cereal crops with less fertilizer
Eduardo Blumwald, right, of the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, with postdoctoral researcher Akhilesh...
No, the human brain did not shrink 3,000 years ago: research
UNLV anthropologist Brian Villmoare. Credit: Aaron Mayes/UNLV Did the 12th century B.C.E.—a time when humans...
Large-scale study of Brazilian wetlands shows biodiversity loss undermines ecosystem functioning
Low-lying terrain and wild vegetation on an island of the Paraná River’s delta/wetlands/floodplain in Argentina;...
The developing bird pelvis passes through ancestral dinosaurian conditions
Embryonic quail hindquarters imaged using laser scanning confocal microscopy. The skeleton is in green, nerves...
New method enables efficient sample preparation for single-cell proteomics
Credit: Kumamoto University The proteins that make up our cells hold within an entire world...