As small-scale gold mining increases to meet demand, local crops absorb gaseous mercury emitted by the illegal and semilegal ...

Plants exchange adaptive information, helping them to adjust to environmental challenges. Salt stress in plants, caused by ...

When you go down with a cold and your spider plant sags the very same week, it feels personal. The timing is eerie, the ...

Unlike firs, pines are a pyrocentric tree. When they experience drought they close their stomata, retain their water and ...

They found that venomous snakes use dramatically different strategies to deliver their deadly bites. Vipers and elapids ...

In many cells of the human body, hair-like protrusions known as cilia act as antennae, allowing cells to receive signals from ...

Your brain transforms thoughts into speech using an ancient blueprint: the sensorimotor control system. New research reveals ...

As enrollment numbers for the introductory chemistry and physics courses reach around 600 students each this semester, the ...

Touch the branches of Leptogorgia chilensis, a soft coral found along the Pacific coast from California to Chile, and its ...

The first animals must also have invented ways to produce the many different kinds of cells we have today; muscle cells, nerve cells, egg cells and sperm to name a few. The division of labour among ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like ...

Actor Walton Goggins recently shared a harrowing experience while filming a scene for the TV series ‘White Lotus’—he was ...