Month: May 2011

For decades, a 2.3-million- to 1.2-million-year-old human relative named Paranthropus boisei has been nicknamed Nutcracker…

There’s a crisis among the world’s amphibians — about 40 percent of amphibian species have…

In modern ecology, the removal or addition of a predator to an ecosystem can produce…

Researchers have identified a cellular protein that acts as a receptor for Ebola virus and…

Sharks, tuna, billfish and other oceanic top predators have suffered major population declines in recent…

The production of wind energy in the US over the next 30-50 years will be…

Rice originated in China, a team of genome researchers has concluded in a study tracing…

Scientists have discovered that drugs used to treat HIV may also one day become lifesaving…

A nine-month study of how University of Washington graduate students did or did not use…