US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday easing regulations for the private space industry, including ...

When soybean plants survive attacks from insects and periods of drought, they remember. While plants don't remember in the ...

Astrobiology poses fundamental questions about life in the universe: How did it emerge? Is there life beyond Earth? In a ...

One day in August, 1875, a grayish-blue parrot was shot on a small island in the Indian Ocean near Mauritius. It was the last ...

A group of rabbits in Colorado with grotesque, hornlike growths may seem straight out of a low-budget horror film, but scientists say there's no reason to be spooked—the furry creatures merely have a ...

Scientists from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, together with researchers from St. Petersburg State University and K.A.Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology RAS, have defined key changes ...

Exosomes, naturally derived vesicles responsible for intercellular communication, are emerging as next-generation drug ...

The southwestern United States has been in a historic megadrought for much of the past two decades, with its reservoirs, ...

On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank ...

Many of us would struggle to recall the last time we wrote anything substantial by hand. Digital devices often feel more ...

Writing, reading, math and mindfulness? That last subject is increasingly joining the three classic courses, as more young ...

As human activity across the world's oceans expands, scientists are zeroing in on shifts in atmospheric ...