For sweeping drama, it's hard to beat hydropower from dams — a renewable source of electricity that helped build much of the developed world. Yet five scientists say that behind roaring cascades..
Many farms have areas where the ground either floods or does not retain enough water or fertilizer for crops to thrive. Such marginal lands could become useful and potentially profitable if they are p..
Increased production of corn in the United States has largely been credited to advances in farming technology but new research shows that changing temperatures play a significant role in crop yield.
Astronomers have found what could be one of the universe's oldest stars, made almost entirely of materials spewed from the Big Bang.
Although dairy pastoralism once made Mongolian steppe herders successful enough to conquer most of Asia and Europe, the origins of this way of life on the East Asian steppe are still unclear. Now an i..
Quantum systems can be manipulated with extremely high, but not with perfect precision. Researchers have now demonstrated how errors that occur during such operations can be monitored and corrected on..
The accepted hierarchy of human senses — sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell — is not universally true across all cultures, new research shows.
Researchers have identified proteins that may be useful in both earlier diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and in more accurate disease prognosis.
Scientists have found that the protein NGA1 is critical for plants to have normal responses to dehydration. The study shows how NGA1 controls transcription of a key gene that ultimately allows plants ..
Researchers have uncovered the statistical rules that govern how gigantic colonies of fire ants form bridges, ladders and floating rafts.