A paper published in November confirms that the Vistra battery fire in Moss Landing in January released heavy metal deposits ...

Fatally infected ant pupae emit a precise chemical signal that triggers workers to disinfect—and sacrifice—them to stop disease spread.

Ant colonies operate as tightly coordinated "superorganisms" with individual ants working together, much like the cells of a body, to ensure their ...

Ant colonies operate as tightly coordinated "superorganisms" with individual ants working together, much like the cells of a ...

In 2015, Professor Gervásio Silva Carvalho of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS) in the South ...

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

Shani Talice and Benyamin Rosental explore how stem cells could help corals recover from stress and environmental damage ...

UC Berkeley scientists discovered that a microbe can interpret the UAG stop codon in two ways, producing different proteins based on environmental cues. This breaks a long-held biological rule that ...

Lee created the Duck River Watershed Planning Partnership — a 19-member advisory group made up of state and local officials, ...

This top-down effect is technically known as a trophic cascade – a “domino effect throughout the ecological community,” as Pacific Wild puts it. As wolves hunt animals in the rung of the food chain ...

Mycorrhizal fungi grow on and around plant roots and form a symbiotic relationship with plants, transporting nutrients and ...

A group of Girl Scouts left a Gastonia garden with pothos cuttings, ramshorn snails and bacteria water, here's why.