If you grow houseplants, you probably know that sinking feeling you get when you notice the almost imperceivable movement of a dot, fine webbing ...

A 45-day Arctic expedition aboard the Sikuliaq, a research vessel operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, saw ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Their trunklike fossils were discovered in 1843. Yet despite more than a century of speculation, scientists have struggled to ...

The research, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and published Jan. 21 in Nature, showed that deoxyhypusine ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

Fossilized microscopic algae offer insights into historic environmental conditions and provide a clearer picture of how the ...

If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...

Aim This study aimed to understand the seasonal variation of epilithic diatoms in the Gravataí River regarding their composition and density along the river, as well as the respective relationships ...

Scientists say a bioluminescent algae causes the red tides at the centre of recent environmentalist concerns — but that's not to say the magnificent display is totally harmless to marine life.

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