The Lamat Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is a cohort-based research program designed to advance ...

Despite rare earth elements' importance in manufacturing cell phones, magnets and a host of other consumer and commercial ...

In the everyday world, governed by classical physics, the concept of equilibrium reigns. If you put a drop of ink into water, ...

Why do some systems collapse suddenly after what seems like a minor disturbance? A single transmission line failure can ...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have discovered a way to breach one of cancer's most stubborn defenses: the ...

An ecosystem is not a still life. Even where everything looks stable—a woodland, a lake, the soil—the internal "bookkeeping" ...

A Purdue University digital forestry team has created a computational tool to obtain and analyze urban tree inventories on ...

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma have developed new hybrid materials that challenge conventional thinking about how ...

New research shows that maintaining and adopting proposed marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Southern Ocean could almost ...

Corralling a wild rhinoceros into a small chute to give it eyedrops might seem like a crazy plan. But if it's crazy and it ...

Scientists have pinpointed crucial genetic resistance to a fungal disease that threatens the global banana supply in a wild ...

A new study finds entrepreneurs become more committed to their business ventures when they are told they will fail, ...