When it comes to mice, the freeze-dried mouse sperm Wakayama is currently storing aboard the ISS will return to Earth in 2025 ...

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir ...

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Understanding these northerly ocean currents could help scientists predict if—or when—warming temperatures could cause a ...

It’s not strange that The Lord of the Rings is receiving the animation treatment—after all, J.R.R. Tolkien’s trilogy was ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...

Indeed it is. According to the UNCCD, the transformation over the three studied decades is leading to loss of GDP, forced ...

Just as astronomers use powerful telescopes to peer into the vast expanse of the universe, climate scientists use ...

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Wildfires and thawing permafrost are causing the region to release more carbon dioxide than its plants remove, probably for ...

It is now the longest-known great-circle distance — the shortest path between two points on the Earth — traveled by a member ...