Oxygen-deprived areas in the world's oceans usually found in deeper water are moving up to offshore areas and threatening coastal marine ecosystems by spurring the die-off of some species and overpopulation of others...
How exactly did identical marine species come to inhabit both the north and south polar regions?
These southwestern lizards' asexual reproduction is no longer a secret
A reservoir of comets deep in the outer reaches of the solar system has so far escaped direct detection
The German government has big goals for vehicles running on hydrogen fuel cells. But can their model translate to the U.S. market?
Oak Ridge National Lab researchers have come up with a fast-charging prototype drive system. But is the technology ahead of its time?
The richness of the African gene pool is demonstrated by decoding DNA from the anti-apartheid activist and several Bushmen hunter-gatherers
Type Ia supernovae, often used to calibrate cosmological measurements, may arise from merging white dwarfs, after all
New insight into the fragile pharaoh's family tree shows intrafamilial marriage, and royal lives cursed by malarial infections and bodily defects
Novel materials might make harvesting sunlight for electricity affordable
A new analysis of the Murchison meteorite, which fell to Earth more than 40 years ago, reveals tens of thousands of organic compounds
Team members used test runs in a simulator created at Rensselaer Polytech to determine the best way to beat wind resistance
Although the answer seems obvious, it took a supersize catwalk and a bank of computers to provide fresh data on elephant locomotion and the relationship between body size and energy expenditure...
Sea levels can rise and fall fast, even during an ice age, according to new research
Less than a millionth of a degree kelvin above absolute zero, chemical reactions can still proceed rapidly
Maternal age and autism are both on the rise--but only a small fraction of the increasing incidence can be explained by the trend toward later childbearing
It was hoped using reprogrammed mature cells would be a noncontroversial alternative to embryo-derived stem cells. But problems like low replication rates and early senescence have impeded their efficacy in generating differentiated cells...
Recent scandals have undermined the credibility of the international scientific body, yet the scientific evidence for climate change remains as strong as ever
Preserved in hair and bone samples for 4,000 years, the DNA of an early Greenlander reveals new clues about everything from skin color to migration patterns
The rapid formation of stars billions of years ago compared with the present day appears to have resulted from larger gas reservoirs rather than from a more efficient formation process
