Keeping to warm climates throughout their 250-million-year history may have helped crocodiles and their relatives survive the ...

Water scarcity seldom starts wars, but wars increasingly degrade vital water systems on which health and recovery depend, creating a cycle that reinforces ongoing fragility and violence, warn experts ...

Changes to how our genes are turned on and off are critical to health but are difficult to study. A new technology called FIRE pairs machine learning with advanced DNA sequencing to find regions that ...

University of Warwick astronomers have shown that white dwarf stars can glow in a remarkable range of colours, including the first star ever found that would appear green to the human eye. For most ...

A new report published in the journal BioScience warns that “Earth’s climate system is moving deeper into uncharted territory,” with seven of 16 climate-related planetary vital signs now at record ...

A conceptual figure from the study showing how researchers used InSAR deformation data to create a permeability map of the aquifer after about 6 months of groundwater pumping. The bottom layer is ...

Adult male condor in Patagonia showing the soaring flight that allows birds to flap remarkably little despite their large size. An Andean condor and a trumpeter swan both weigh about 11 kilograms. Yet ...

The first definitive evidence of when post-Roman lead production began in one of Europe’s largest medieval lead-producing regions, the Derbyshire Peak District in central England, has been uncovered ...

Every organ and tissue progressively loses function as it ages, but aging tissues retain a latent capacity for rejuvenation.

Metabolic reprogramming and epigenetic regulation form a bidirectional regulatory network that drives hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression. HCC cells undergo extensive metabolic alterations, ...

Adding straw or biochar to manure can help salt-affected soils capture more carbon, but new research reveals that the two materials achieve this through fundamentally different mechanisms Soils are ...

Researchers developed an integrated Brillouin laser ring gyroscope that measures rotation as slow as 37 degrees per hour. This image shows a conceptual schematic of the chip-based gyroscope.