With explosive bursts of pollen, male Hypenea macrantha flowers knock some competitors’ deposits off hummingbird beaks before the birds reach females.
Neuroscientist Liz Chrastil’s brain scans before, during and after pregnancy are providing the first view of a mom-to-be’s structural brain changes.
Biotech firms, pharmaceutical manufacturers, the makers of semiconductors and other advanced materials – companies from across the entire industrials sector – will invent and produce their next ...
In a first, astronomers captured how convective forces power the quick bubbling movement of gas cells on the surface of a distant, massive star.
Researchers working in the field of agrivoltaics are studying how to combine solar farming with grazing, crop production or ecological restoration.
Experts say this could make the herb useful for those experiencing anxious, jumpy types of stress, like a student dreading an exam. Margaret Harris, a nutrition researcher at the University of ...
A new painkiller nearing approval called suzetrigine may prove to be an opioid alternative. But for many with chronic pain, treatment must go beyond pills.
The Earth’s ambipolar electric field is weak but strong enough to control the shape and evolution of the upper atmosphere.
AI might help lift conspiracy theorists out of the rabbit hole, but some researchers say proceed with caution.
Long-lasting, widespread heat and weather extremes may have caused the Great Dying extinction event 252 million years ago.
DNA from a partial skeleton found in France indicates that European Neandertals consisted of at least two genetically distinct populations.
Long dry spells can give a lethal fungal disease a lift. While California droughts can temporarily keep cases of valley fever — a sometimes deadly illness caused by Coccidioides fungi ...