Month: September 2011

Humanity’s relationship to fire — including wildfires, burning of fossil fuels, controlled burns and human-caused…

Dams and weirs have a stronger impact on watercourse ecosystems than was previously realized. Species…

In the new movie “Contagion,” fictional health experts scramble to get ahead of a flu-like…

Scientists report that snails successfully crossed Central America, long considered an impenetrable barrier to marine…

In the last few days, the decline in Arctic sea ice extent has slowed. New…

New clean fuel regulations in California and voluntary slowdowns by shipping companies substantially reduce air…

An international team of researchers has decoded and compared the genome sequence of 17 mouse…

A team of researchers from Singapore, Australia, Switzerland, the UK and the USA has carried…

The eruption of giant masses of magma in Siberia 250 million years ago led to…

Astronomers have shown how the Milky Way galaxy’s iconic spiral arms form, according to new…