Science

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The first case...

Two studies have linked the mysterious rise in unexplained hepatitis cases among children to the adeno-associated virus 2, which infects...

For all the progress that scientists have made in breeding crops that feed more people, these breakthroughs typically elude a...

Chilli plants can thrive in summer and survive the winter even in temperate climes, says the heat-loving Clare Wilson, who...

Schoolbooks typically present explorers as intrepid individuals who, at the behest of colonizing leaders, sail wooden ships to new lands,...

Colorado potato beetles lose almost all the mitochondria in their muscles during hibernation, but regrow them in time to start...

If you have a habit of perusing satellite imagery of the world’s oceans—and who doesn’t, really?—you might get lucky and...

REEF TOWERSOUTH PACIFIC, 50 MILES EAST OF CAPE YORK PENINSULA, AUSTRALIA Scientists at James Cook University in Australia were charting...

Ring vaccination worked for smallpox because a person-to-person pattern of spread makes it possible to predict and interrupt chains of...

“Each one of those kinds of pyrite is telling us something different about our planet, its origin, about life, and...

In the summer of 1856 Florence Nightingale sailed home from war furious. As the nursing administrator of a sprawling British...

On January 30, 1864, the Confederate warship CSS Alabama entered what its captain described as a “remarkable patch of the...

The LSU report, though, became best known for its proposed solution, which focused on counteracting levees. The authors suggested that...

Stickleback fish can learn about predators by observing their peers. They may then be able to pass that information onto...

Ink laced with molecules that can store data has been used to write a letter containing a hidden, encoded message...

These entrancing orbs look like something plucked from distant universes, but they were in fact created by photographer Charlotte Greenwood...