Reindeer grazing changes the vegetation of northern pine forests below ground as well as above it. In a recent study in ...

Migrating birds that breed in the Arctic are spreading avian influenza to polar bears in eastern Greenland, according to a new study that found evidence of infections in bear blood samples acquired ...

Small fish such as sardinella are an affordable source of protein and essential nutrients for millions of people across West Africa.

An international study led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, CSIC-UPF) in Barcelona, the Natural Sciences Museum ...

Just like gloves, molecules can have left- and right-handed—or mirror-image—forms. Because the left- and right-handed ...

About 20,000 years ago, an enormous, floating ice shelf more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) thick helped lock in three of the largest ice sheets in northern Canada and Greenland. When that ice shelf ...

For the first time, Northwestern University physicists have coaxed a single positron—the antimatter counterpart of an ...

Earlier this year, an outbreak of Andes hantavirus on a cruise ship, which killed three passengers and sickened 13, ...

Marine heat waves are usually seen as destructive events that can disrupt entire ocean ecosystems and trigger massive ...

Climate change can look very different at the scale of a forest, field or hillside. A new review shows how changes in ...

In the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a research team from Kyushu University, Universitetet i Bergen and the ...

Scientists have proposed what they believe is the first method for detecting "mirror life"—a hypothetical form of life made ...