Comprising a diverse range of backgrounds and ages, the collective fosters a space for voices of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian seed stewards from the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region…

The arch is believed to have been 550 years old.

Archaeologists discovered 48 prehistoric arrows during a recent three-week expedition in the mountains of Jotunheimen

Experts expect flows to soon drop to a level that could upend the byzantine “Law of the River” that has governed the river for more than a century.

Numerous leafy shoots are now sprouting around the base of the tree’s stump, which is located near Hadrian’s Wall in northern England

Targeted gene therapies are highly effective at stopping cancers, but the very abundance of the treatments, plus cost and sluggish change, are hindering access.

Wild tomatoes reveal gene switches that shape fruit color, sugar, bitterness, and aroma - offering clues for better breeding.

The ancestors of the giant isopod Bathynomus jamesi—a seafloor-dwelling creature that resembles a huge pill bug—acquired the snippet of DNA from bacteria more than 16 million years ago, according to a...

Transposable elements mobilize within and occasionally between genomes, including from host to virus. We identified two insertions of the human BC200 noncoding RNA gene in the poxvirus molluscum conta...

And how they might have helped save the future of American apples

The first fall runs of chinook salmon since the project in California and Oregon was completed have surpassed researchers’ expectations.

BOISE – Idaho law enforcement believe a man found dead after poisoning himself in a Boise church 44 years ago could have a connection to the 1982 Tylenol killings, an unsolved string of homicides that...

Artificial light at night (ALAN) is considered a potential anthropogenic stressor for global insect decline by disrupting natural behaviour in affecte…

The National Museum of Natural History’s new exhibition “From These Lands” features an American paddlefish, the last surviving species of an ancient lineage of fishes that predates dinosaurs

Researchers are racing to culture a menagerie of exotic organisms and finding lots of surprises along the way.

“This is kind of just a once-in a-lifetime experience,” said marine researcher Annsli Hilton.

After groves were ravaged for decades by a disease, new EPA-approved genetic technologies are giving citrus growers a chance to rebuild.

By participating in programs that ease grid congestion, school districts can recoup thousands of dollars from the price of electric school buses.

Some types of marine life appear to have it easy. While exploring thousands of meters below the waves in the Chilean Margin in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, scientists observed tiny shrimp-like crus...

Six years ago, forest ecologist Marin Chambers looked toward the mountains with trepidation as a massive plume of smoke filled the sky above the largest wildfire in Colorado’s history.

Decision marks first time a genetically modified tree designed for forest restoration clears regulatory hurdle.

Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works.

Lake sturgeon may be among the longest-living vertebrates, second only to Greenland sharks, according to recent research. However, scientists note that follow-up work is necessary to clarify the speci...

Auburn’s decision came after the Alabama Legislature put limits on the powers of faculty senates.

“Estate distillers” manage every step of whiskey production, from growing their own grains to bottling the finished spirit.

After being declared extinct, the ancient cliff cypress — a 300-million-year-old "living fossil" — has staged a stunning comeback in Southwest China's Chongqing, thanks to a two-decade-long…

When a beloved box turtle lost his mobility, a veterinary team improvised with spare parts and rapid engineering—proving that sometimes the best solutions come from creative constraint, not cutting-ed...

The mystery of the flipping foraminifera may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet.

Tribes and scientists are mounting an urgent trapping effort to keep European green crabs from devastating a corner of Puget Sound.

The EV maker is betting on custom silicon to beat Tesla to Level 4 self driving

Hugo the shire horse enters the record books as the world's tallest living horse.

Pathogens target and degrade the extracellular matrix surrounding plant cells. A central question is how cell wall-derived damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are recognized and integrated to...

An extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did not.